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TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The seedless barberry preserves made in that town are extremely very well known. The 

 common barberry shrubs in the vicinity of Paris & elsewhere don't yield any seedless 

 fruit, even from the oldest plants. 



The other barberry varieties, purple fruit, white fruit, large leaved, #wxw.s-leaved, 

 &c. are cultivated more as curiosities than for their uses. But it's a shame that M. 

 Tournefort left the black fruit barberry Oriental Barberry, taller with sweetest black fruit 

 Cor. Inst, on the banks of the Euphrates & that he didn't enrich our locality with a tree 

 that would seem to be so worthy of recognition. 



The barberry doesn't require any cultivation, & pruning even less so. The more 

 it's pruned, the less fruit it yields. It's propagated by seed planting, cuttings, and rooted 

 suckers. 



