18 Notes on Eiiglaiid and Prmicc. 



the Louise Bonne d^ Av7'anches, as it is stated by them to 

 have originated either at Avranches or at Cherbourg. 



The IJuchesse d' Orleans is another new kind, of a beau- 

 tiful golden russet color, which is very highly spoken of in 

 Normandy. Of the later trials, or of 1841, as Mr. Thomp- 

 son informed me, the following other kinds have been there 

 approved, as beingof very distinguished merit, and as high- 

 ly deserving of extensive circulation. Thompson Fear, a 

 new Flemish fruit ; Althnrpe Crassane of Knight, Hacon's 

 Incomparable; and the Dunmore, also of Mr. Knight. — 

 This last is large and of most excellent quality, a prodi- 

 gious bearer, and ripens between those two main and most 

 profitable and established varieties, the Williams Bon Chre- 

 tien and Marie Louise; or it ripens a little before the last 

 named. From this cause, the genuine trees of the Dun- 

 more, as I am informed, are now sold by some as high as 

 half a guinea each. Rousclencli is another new kind, ori- 

 ginated by Mr. Knight, and lately proved to be eminently 

 valuable. All Mr. Knight's new kinds prove great bearers 

 generally, according to Mr. Thompson. 



Of new ornamental or useful productions, I will here 

 speak particularly only of two distinct species of trees — 

 namely, the Deodara and the Paidoioiia. The Paulownia 

 imperidlis is ^-et exceeding rare. It is of a growth so rapid 

 that, in a highly fertile soil, it is stated to have grown to 

 the height of twelve feet in a single season. The leaves are 

 of unusual size. The tree which bloomed for the first time 

 in the Garden of Plants at Paris, in open culture, and in the 

 beginning of May last, is stated to have produced flowers 

 like the splendid G/o:i-«n'a cmridea. The Deoda?-a, Cedrus 

 Deodara, or Pinus Deodara, or Holy Cedar of the Moun- 

 tains, is a new tree from the elevated mountains of India, 

 otherwise termed the God Tree, so called because certain 

 nations of those countries worship beneath its shade. 



The Deodara is an evergreen tree with leaves like the 

 larch. The trunk grows tall and upright, the branches 

 horizontal or pendulous. At Liverpool I first saw the 

 tree, in December 1841, and perfectly hardy in that cold 

 but moist climate. By topping, it was there made to as- 

 sume the form of the weeping willow. Altogether, it is a 

 most rare, useful and splendid tree. In a late number of the 

 Gardener'' s Chronicle, a most valuable journal which is edit- 

 ed in London by Dr. Lindley, he therestates that the Deodara 



