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ON FRUITS IN CENTRAL EUROPE. 



Our work in Russia was an endeavor to find out what fruits had 

 stood the test of climates as severe as our own. 



In central Europe another field of work presented itself, viz : 

 what varieties, valuable in these milder climates, are worthy of trial 

 here? 



Our journey from London onwards was a constant succ ession 

 of visits to Horticultural and Botanic Gardens, Pomological and 

 Forest Schools, steady, rapid work, without time even to arrange 

 our notes. 



At Verrieres, near Paris, in the gardens of M. Henri de Vilmorin, 

 gardens full of botanic rarities, we specially noticed that the apple 

 trees which had been selected for cordon training, included many 

 kinds whose leaf and early terminate growth betokened northern 

 ancestry. We noticed this, too, in the nurseries of M. Simon 

 Louis, at Metz. 



At the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, we had a grand opportunity 

 to study the different races of the pear. A large collection, botan- 

 ical as well as horticultural, including different races from China, 

 from Japan, India and different parts of Europe, and their hybrids. 

 Mr. Budd is the one man who has taken up this botanic question 

 of races, and applied it practically to northern horticulture. 

 By noting certain characteristics of race one might collect in the 

 milder parts of Europe, varieties of the apple and the pear, with 

 the assurance th^lt a large part of them would prove hardy in severe 

 climates. 



At Reutlingen, in Wurtemburg, we visited the Pomological 

 School of the late Dr. Lucas, so well-known to Pomologists by his 

 works and his life-long labors. At the time of our visit he was 

 fast declining, and on our arrival at Proskau we heard of his death. 

 From Mr. Fritz Lucas, his son and successor, we received lists and 

 notes of those fruits which had stood uninjured during their late 

 trying winters.- 1- 



At the late Pomological School at Kosteneuberg, near Vienna, 

 we met Prof. Stoll, who has also a thorough knowledge of the 



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