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kept to the surface, and the tree consequently kept free 

 from canker. There is another surface-rooting apple 

 also well adapted for stocks, the Burr Knot. This, like 

 the Dou-cin, will strike root, if stout cuttings, two or 

 three years old, are planted two-thirds of their length 

 in a moist soil ; it is a large, handsome, and very 

 good culinary apple. At Ware Park in Hertfordshire, 

 this is called Byde's Walking-stick Apple, owing to 

 Mr. Byde, the former proprietor of the place, often 

 planting branches with his own hand, which soon 

 formed nice bearing trees. 



Among apples raised from seed, some will occasion- 

 ally be found with this surface-rooting nature ; and 

 this is, I suspect, the reason why the Doucin stock, 

 under the name of the Paradise, in the English 

 nurseries, differs from the stock used as Doucias in 

 Prance ; there are also several varieties cultivated there, 

 some of which are unfitted for our climate. 



There are three varieties of the French Paradise, 

 all making very dwarf trees; then come three Dutch 

 Paradise, all much alike, but slightly more vigorous 

 than the French sorts ; next to them are two English 

 Paradise, both of them from old English nurseries — 

 they have much resemblance to the French Doucin 

 stock, but are better, swelling with the graft. The 

 Creeping Paradise is probably that mentioned by 

 Miller, in the last century, since it is very remarkable 

 for putting forth suckers from the roots, objectionable, 

 but not common with the apple tribe. The Nonesuch 



