PYEAMIDAL APPLE TEEES ON THE PAIUDISE STOCK 73- 



Paradise stock, raised here from that very old apple the 

 Nonesuch of Queen Bess's time, is quite sui generis, 

 for it has downy leaves and a knotted stem, but is 

 wonderfully fertile. The Broad-leaved Paradise, also- 

 raised from seed here, is the best variety of the Doucin 

 stock. The Miniature and Pigmy Paradise, both raised 

 from seed here, have the dwarf habit of the French 

 Paradise. 



The Pommier de Paradis, or the French Paradise, 

 seems identical with the ' dwarf apple of Armenia,' 

 referred to in the ' Journal of the Horticultural Society,' 

 part ii. vol. iii. p. 115. It is exceedingly dwarf in its 

 habit, and too tender for this climate, unless in very 

 warm and rich soils. Out of 2,000 imported in 1845, 

 more than half died the first season, and two-thirds of 

 the remainder the following. They were planted in 

 fine fertile loam, favourable to the growth of apples, and 

 on which the Doucin, planted the same season, grew 

 with the greatest vigour. The same result attended an 

 importation in 1866. I have potted some plants, and 

 owing, as I suppose, to the roots being warmed through 

 the pots by exposure to the sun, they make very nice 

 little fruitful bushes — in fact, real miniature apple trees, 

 bearing fruit when only nine inches in height ; to have 

 healthy fertile trees, I should recommend them to be 

 gradually shifbed into fifteen-inch pots. The citizen 

 may thus have his apple orchard on the leads of his 

 house. 



The Nonesuch and Broad-leaved Paradise stocks,. 



