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nor the Golden rennet, both of winch sometimes get the name 

 of Drap cTOr, -but a large round fruit, of a fine yellow co- 

 lour, dotted with brownish points, with a light pulp, hav- 

 ing an agreeable flavour. To these may be added diffe- 

 rent subvarieties of the Courtpendu, particularly Court- 

 pendu Peche, Courtpendu rosart, and Courtpendu a fos- 

 sette ; all of which are large, of an agreeable flavour, fit 

 either for the dessert or the kitchen, and capable of being 

 kept till May or June. A recent seedling apple, said to 

 be of excellent quality, remains to be noticed : it is called 

 Comie (TOrm, and was produced at Maestricht about the 

 year 1800. It has been cultivated for some years at Ant- 

 werp, but, we believe, is not generally known. — The plums 

 afforded no novelty. By much the best was the Reine- 

 Claude or green-gage; and the most common was the 

 Hungarian or blue egg-plum. This last, we may observe, 

 very generally appears in the fruit-markets of Antwerp, of 

 Ghent, Bruges, and even Ostend. 



Having discussed the fruit-trees, we shall now, at the risk 

 of being thought tedious, take notice of two or three re- 

 markable specimens of ornamental forest-trees, which oc- 

 cur in the lawns and groves near the mansion-house. 



Among these, a majestic purple-beech (or black beech, 

 swart'/x beeckenboom, as Mr Donkelaar called it) deserves 

 the first place. It had been grafted on a common beech 

 stock, about three feet in height. The place of grafting is 

 marked by a wooden ring, which passes round the bole of 

 the tree, nearly in a horizontal plane ; so that the purple 

 beeflfa stem seems as if it had been merely set down flat 

 <;n the stock : perhaps the mode called peg-grafting had 

 Ixjcn adopted. At a loot from the ground, the trunk of 

 the stock, or common beech, measures 10 feet 10 inches 

 in circumference. Immediately at the place of grafting, 

 the trunk of the purple beech measures 0' 2 feet round. 



