CHAP. II. DESSERT FRUITS. 245 



July, which is used for preserving, and is only eatable when 

 cooked. . Dr. Voigt states that the tree has been in the Calcutta 

 Botanic Gardens twenty years without blossoming. Dr. Riddel 

 says that the fruit is plentiful at Sattara, and that he has met 

 with it at Poonah, and that he has seen the tree blossom else- 

 where, but not produce fruit. 



It is propagated usually by cuttings, which strike very readily. 



Pyrus malus. 



APPLE. 



8eb. 



There are certain localities in India in which the Apple appears 

 to be cultivated with complete success. 



In April, 1837, Major Moore sent some Apples to the Agri- 

 Horticultural Society from Hydrabad, remarking : 



" I have this day sent you a specimen of the Nonpareil Apples 

 grown in my garden ; and those which we have taken from the 

 same tree have been fully as good as any I ever tasted in England. 

 Some I have taken from the tree measured ten and a half inches 

 in circumference." * 



In Tirhoot, Mr. S. French is reported to have grown Apples 

 of a superior kind in the year 1838. And at the Calcutta Horti- 

 cultural Show in March, 1854, a few splendid, large, and well- 

 flavoured Apples from Mr. William Moran's garden in Tirhoot 

 were placed on the table. 



In 1858 I tasted some very large specimens of an excellent 

 Apple grown at Duronda in Chota Nagpore, sent to the Agri- 

 Horticultural Society. These bore every resemblance to the 

 Eusset, so valuable for cooking purposes in England. In our 

 gardens at Ferozepore we had a small and very delicious Apple, 

 like the White Joanneting, but superior to it in flavour, produced 

 in great abundance during the month of April. It is difficult to 

 tell where this Apple originally came from. It seems to have 

 been not at all known lower down the country, as a visitor from 

 Umballa, who was with me during the time it was in season, told 

 me he had seen nothing of the kind there. It is unknown also, 

 I am informed, in the Punjab. 



* ' Agri-Hort. Soc. Trans.' vol. v. p. 21. 



