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stated question of the day, or any other subject, by laying all 

 others on the table. 



He said, we possess the advantage of receiving from abroad 

 the first information and books, and he was in the habit of giving to 

 the club all those matters deemed worthy of note. He thought 

 some of those last received by the Institute very acceptable. Thej 

 are due to the two principal societies under the protection of Empe- 

 ror L )uis Napoleon, sent gratis to the American Institute by them. 



Journal De La Societe Imperiale et Ceatrale D'Horticulture. Napoleon Sd.Protee- 

 teur. Paris, October, 1856.] 



Translated by Henry Meigs. 



APRICOT. 



An article written by Monsieur Jonghe on this fruit, in June, 

 was published in the London Gardeners' Chronicle of the 31st of 

 May, 1856 : 



" It is an essential point and not well understood by the author, 

 that is, that the apricot, from the pit of a good kind of the fruit, 

 is as robust in the open field as our pears or cherries. I said that 

 when the apricot grows directly from its own roots it is robust, 

 and I request a committee from the Imperial society to examine 

 the apricots in my open garden at Brussels. They will see more 

 abundant fruit on them than any grafted tree in the Garden of 

 Plants, or the Garden of Luxemburgh, or at Durand's Gard-en, 

 and this has been the fact for the last consecutive five years; and 

 I find in the writings of the late Mons. Van Mons that he was 

 equally successful in his Experimental Garden Fidelity at Brussels, 

 at the beginning of this century, the whole secret consisting in 

 selecting the proper pits for planting. Twenty years ago I began 

 with planting apricot pits from Van Mons' trees, but I have since 

 found other pits which gave me more healthy, vigorous and 

 hardy trees. 



Complete success depends on two other points : the manner of 

 treatment of the young trees, and suitable soil in order to produce 

 perfect apricots. For five years past amateurs have seen the 

 results of my method and bought good pits from me." 



