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our notes, of medium size, oblate, somewhat angular, yellow, 

 changing on the exposed side to deep golden-yellow, and sometimes 

 having a thin flush of rosy-red. The eye is broad, but closed, 

 sunk in a rather deep cavity. The stalk is short, scarcely pro- 

 jecting from the hollow, which is not so deep as that of the eye. 

 The flesh is pale straw colour, fine grained, solid, juicy, and with 

 a brisk agreeable flavour. It ripens in the middle and end of 

 August, and would form a good useful early dessert Apple, inde- 

 pendent of its value as a dwarfing stock for Apple-trees grown in 

 the bush or pyramidal form." 



A correspondent of the Garden writes, "I find it to be a 

 very difficult matter to procure it (the French Paradise) in this 

 country; and, so far as my experience goes, nurserymen seem to 

 discourage its introduction. Last year I wanted a number of 

 trees on the French stock, and had a quantity sent to me by a 

 nurseryman whom I knew ; but thei vigorous appearance of the 

 trees made me doubt the stock. Acting upon my advice, the 

 nurseryman wrote to another in the trade, who advertises one of 

 the largest collections of Apples and Pears in England, and 

 stocks of all sorts and sizes, and the result was a letter in reply 

 condemning the French Paradise stock as useless, and recom- 

 mending another variety of the English Paradise, which the 

 writer of the letter had raised and named after himself, and 

 which it appeared was superior to any other in existence. Not a 

 little annoyed at being put oS in this way, my friend took the 

 trouble to procure the plants for me direct from France, and 

 from an undoubted source ; and fine well-ripened little trees they 

 were, only about half as vigorous as those I had got before on the 

 English stock. They were planted in March, and some of the 

 trees, though only maidens, bore a few large fine fruit this season, 

 and they are planted in the open quarters of the kitchen-garden. 

 They have also made a good growth, and promise to bear well 

 next year. Besides these, I ordered another lot on the French 

 Paradise, this time from a house north of the Tweed ; but was 

 informed they could not be got in England true, and that I must 

 wait until the frost had gone in France, when I should be supplied. 

 I did so, and had them direct from Orleans in April. This is my 

 experience in trying to get the French Paradise stock, which I 

 am desirous of experimenting with." 



