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These have been sparingly pruned. In these remarks I carefully 

 distinguish the true French Paradise, with its peculiar wood and 

 small fruit, with a mixture of sweet and bitter in its flavour. " 



On the same subject Mr. Such of South Amboy, New Jersey, 

 writes as follows : — 



"In my garden I have on this stock many little bush-like 

 Apple-trees that have endured the greatest extremes of heat and 

 of cold. About four winters ago the thermometer fell to 20^ 

 below zero, and last summer the heat was intense, reaching 106° 

 to 108° in the shade. In spite of this my little trees are in 

 perfect health. The Doucin stock is also thoroughly hardy. 

 There is near here a small orchard of Apples on this stock, 

 planted more than fifteen years ago, all of which are in full 

 vigour. My trees on the Paradise are like very large currant 

 bushes ; those on the Doucin are from ten to fifteen feet through." 



Since the first edition of this book appeared, the Paradise stock 

 has been figured in the 'Florist and Pomologist ' (May, 1875), 

 with the following remarks : — 



"We have much pleasure in submitting a figure of the true 

 French Paradise Apple, the Pommier de Paradis, which, when 

 used as a stock, is of such inestimable value in inducing dwarfness 

 and prolificacy in other varieties of Apple. Mr. Barron has 

 collected from various sources, British and Continental, a number 

 of Apple stocks, which are growing side by side, so as to admit of 

 easy comparison. Side by side, also, are various Apples worked 

 on the several stocks. There are the Crab stocks (Pommiers 

 francs), with long, spreading, rigid, wiry, tangled branches, of a 

 deep purplish-black colour, and at the time of our visit (April 11) 

 with no vestige either of leaf or flower to be seen. There is the 

 Dutch Paradise, of straggling habit, with olive-coloured shoots, 

 in full leaf, but without a flower. There is Mr. Eivers's Nonsuch 

 English Paradise, destitute of leaf or flower, and Eivers's Miniature 

 Paradise, equally late, and scarcely justifying its name. There 

 is Mr. Scott's Paradise, of very distinct somewhat pyramidal 

 habit, in full leaf, but with scarcely a flower to be seen. There 

 is the Doucin, also of pyramidal habit, and producing flowers 

 early. Then there is the true French Paradise, Pommier de 

 Paradis, obtained from the most reliable sources in France, which 

 must unquestionably bear away the prize for precocity of flowering 



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