3o6 Notes and Gleanings. 



are about of equal fertility ; but, in the case of those on the French Paradise, 

 there is apparently a greater tendency to canker than on either of the others. 



" The suckers of the French Paradise appear to me identical with those ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Rivers and Mr. Meston, which are decidedly the same as each 

 other. I have compared each example with specimens of the Pommier de Par- 

 adis, as received from Andre Leroy of Angers, which we have been using in 

 the gardens for the last eight or ten years, and am prepared to state that they 

 are all identical. The French Paradise, when it grows at all vigorous, is easily 

 recognized by its reddish-brown bark, and the peculiar bulging at the base of 

 the buds on the stem. In weak examples, this is not so apparent. 



" The Pommier de Paradis of Mr. Scott of Crewkerne, appears distinct from 

 all the others ; the shoots being of a lightish brown color, and downy. The 

 cHmate of Somersetshire may have, however, altered them considerably. 



" A tree — the identical tree noticed in the Horticultural Society's Transactions 

 (as I am informed by Mr. Thompson) — of the dwarf apple of Armenia, which 

 was sent home to the society by the late Mr. Barker, who was for many years 

 British Consul in the East, and to whom also we are indebted for the Stanwick 

 Nectarine, and many other fruits, still exists in the garden. It is in a very 

 healthy state, and will this season produce blossoms, if not fruits. It is growing 

 in very poor soil, and, until last spring, was much neglected and smothered up with 

 other trees, so that it has not had so fair a chance of developing itself as it should 

 have had. The stem is almost the thickness of one's arm, and the top about 

 ten or twelve feet high, and as much in diameter. Mr. Thompson always consid- 

 ered it identical with the French Paradise; and no man has had a better oppor- 

 tunity of examining them, and arriving at a conclusion. It appears to me slightly 

 different from the French Paradise of Leroy, and more nearly resembles that of 

 Mr. Scott. They have been- grown under very dissimilar conditions, however: so 

 that that point cannot be settled. 



'• None of the stocks used in the society's garden have ever suffered and been 

 injured by frost in the manner of those of the English Paradise exhibited by 

 Mr. Scott, which were very much cankered. And the French Paradise seems 

 to succeed best in wet, clayey soils. I have never seen the slightest tendency 

 to canker, excepting with the trees now nearly fifty years of age. 



"The pyginy and miniature Paradise stocks of Mr. Rivers cannot be distin- 

 guished from weak examples of the true French Paradise. 



" The grafted examples exhibited by Mr. Rivers on the Nonsuch English 

 Paradise, and the Broad-leaved English Paradise, are excellent, about similar 

 in vigor to those on the French Paradise exhibited by Mr. Meston, and also in 

 their rooting properties. Those on the French Doucin in both lots are stronger, 

 and not so fibry rooted as the three former. Mr. Rivers's examples on the 

 French Paradise are weak, and wanting in vigor. 



"All of the examples exhibited supported the statements made by the parties 

 interested. It is, however, an easy matter with such things as apple-stocks, in 

 which there is so much variation in respect to health, vigor, &c., and even of 

 the different growths of the apples worked upon them, to select examples to up- 

 hold any opinion that may be advanced respecting them. A true knowledge of 



