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nursery soil, lose the dwarfish character to a considerable 

 extent. Among summer apples, M. Noisette gives the 

 preference to the Summer Calville, and for an autumn 

 apple he strongly recommends the Reinette d^ngleterre or 

 English Rennet. For winter fruit, the Common Rennet, 

 or Reinette franche, he regards as incomparably the best, 

 and he sells ten trees of it perhaps for one of most other 

 kinds. The Canadian, the Golden, and the Grey Rennets 

 are all much esteemed by M. Noisette as couteau apples ; 

 but the White Spanish, which was new to me, seems his 

 particular favourite. It is a long cylindrical-shaped apple, 

 having a delicate skin, marked with a fine bloom or farina. 

 It is certainly not much known in the gardens around 

 Paris, for I have not met with it any where else. M. Noi- 

 sette considers it as one of the best, and it is doubtless one 

 of the most ornamental apples for the dessert in the win- 

 ter and early spring months, for it keeps till March. It 

 is grafted on paradise-stocks, and might, in Scotland, be 

 placed with propriety against a west wall. Another ren- 

 net, called the De Caux, M. Noisette likewise particularly 

 mentioned, and recommended as a novelty worthy of the 

 attention of the Horticultural Society. The fruit is very 

 large and beautiful, and is in perfection for the table in 

 February or March. A single apple will sometimes weigh 

 more than an English pound. The tree, at the same time, 

 is accounted productive ; and being of strong growth, 

 Noisette recommends it for orchards. In Scotland, it 

 might occupy a sheltered station in the kitchen-garden. 

 It does better on the doucin than on the paradise stock. 

 The Reinette de Runeville is also highly praised. The 

 White Calville is, I find, greatly preferred to the Red. 

 The Pomme d'Api is prized more highly than I should 

 have expected : it is generally grafted on paradise-stocks, 

 and on these stocks the fruit is best. Small trees of it are 



