APPLE. 47 



As the Horticultural Society of this country has been 

 established for the purpose of benefiting the world by 

 its attention to the improvement of our various fruits, and 

 as it is the study of the members to induce the planters of 

 orchards to cultivate and propagate the best kinds of apples 

 only, we may expect that by their attention we shall soon 

 have our markets supplied with a superior kind of apples 

 to what is now generally offered for sale, as the same land 

 that will produce an ill-flavoured apple will afford a good 

 one ; and it is as easy to raise the best kinds of apple- 

 trees as those of inferior value. 



Virgil says in his Pastorals : 



" New cheese and chesnuts are our country fare, 

 With mellow apples for your welcome cheer." 



Coles tells us in his " Paradise of Plants," that " Apples 

 in moderation expel heaviness, and procure mirth." Dr. 

 Veitch, when before the Committee of the Commons on 

 the treatment of insane persons, particularly recommended 

 that their proportion of animal food should be lessened, 

 and that puddings should be substituted : he also says, 

 " The occasional use of cooling fruits, particularly at 

 the warm season of the year, would be attended with 

 advantage." 



M. Duduit de Maizieres, a French officer of the king's 

 household, has invented, and practised with great suc- 

 cess, a method of making bread with common apples 

 very far superior to potatoe bread. After having boiled 

 one-third of peeled apples, he bruised them while quite warm 

 into two-thirds of flour, including the proper quantity of 

 yeast, and kneaded the whole without water, the juice of 

 the fruit being quite sufficient; when this mixture had ac- 

 quired the consistency of paste, he put it into a vessel, 

 in which he allowed it to rise for about twelve hours. By 



