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must speedily exhaust any border, and leave the peach- 

 trees next to the wall, in a very poor soil indeed. 



Among the apricots, the Abricot-peche (already noticed, 

 p. 363.) secins to be in high estimation with M. Noisette, 

 who indeed pronounced it to be the best ; but he mention- 

 ed that the Abricot commun is most in demand. At Pa- 

 ris apricot-rees are generally treated as standards ; they are 

 often trained in a dwarfish form, and are then called bre- 

 tons or batardeaux. The fruit of these is small, but of the 

 highest flavour. The stocks chiefly used are suckers of 

 the cherry-plum, or of the alberge-apricot. 



As to plums, M. Noisette had no hesitation in announ- 

 cing the Heine Claude, or greengage, as by far the finest 

 known : But the Jerusalem is frequently in request, as 

 well as the Monsieur and the St Catherine. 



Among cherries he gives the palm to the Cerise Royale 

 or May-duke ; and he likewise praises highly the Royal 

 Cherry-duke. The Kentish cherry seems here to be called 

 Courte queue de Montmorency, or Gros Gobet ; but the 

 tree is regarded as comparatively a shy bearer. When a 

 cherry-orchard is to be formed, M. Noisette decidedly recom- 

 mends the planting of young stocks, — nursing these for a 

 year or two in their place, — and then budding or grafting 

 the best kinds of cherries upon them. This advice not being 

 in favour of the trade, may surely be regarded as candid 

 and impartial.- — M. Noisette has several fine plants of the 

 large-leaved cherry tree which formerly attracted our notice 

 at the Luxembourg, (p. 416.) He mentioned that he had 

 procured it from Poland, about 1806, and was told that the 

 fruit was uncommonly large, bearing some proportion to the 

 increased size of the leaves. I must remark, however, that 

 this variety was known at the Jardin des Plantes in 1802, 

 and appears in Mr Blaikie's list, made in that year * 



* Appendix, No, VIII- 



