Ibb HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



Finding in a Dutch catalogue a kind of cherry, with the 

 name of " Vier-in-pond, 11 it was concluded that this was pro- 

 bably identical with the new acquisition, and the astound- 

 ing appellation of " Cerise de quatre a la livre" was there- 

 tore bestowed. M. Noisette remarked, that our English 

 name of " Tobacco-leaved cherry-tree," (a name, however, 

 with which I had to confess myself unacquainted), was 

 more appropriate; for that the fruit, which had, within 

 the last two or three years, been afforded sparingly by 

 some of the trees about Paris, had proved small, or at least 

 not larger than common cherries. The leaves are very 

 frequently a foot long, and half as much in breadth ; and 

 M. Noisette has occasionally measured some which had at- 

 tained the gigantic size of a foot and a half in length. M. 

 Noisette thinks it probable that when the trees shall have 

 arrived at full age, the juices may come to be directed more to 

 the fruit than to the foliage, and that cherries of considerable 

 size may then appear. He is supported in this expectation, 

 not only by the testimony of a Polish gentleman, who had 

 seen very large fruit on old trees of this sort ; but by this 

 physical fact, that although the trees at Paris have hitherto 

 blossomed freely, the fruit has very generally dropped off 

 soon after forming, or at the time of stoning, indicating 

 that the energies of the tree have hitherto been directed 

 chiefly to the forming of wood. 



The Pacane walnut, Juglans olivaeformis, is kept in this 

 nursery, being sometimes cultivated for its fruit ; though 

 not much attended to. 



M. Noisette has been at pains to procure some of our 

 good varieties of gooseberry from England, and his bushes 

 now shewed some tolerable berries, although the best were 

 past. But there exists a strong prejudice against this 

 fine fruit, which prevents the Parisians from giving the 

 improved kinds a fair trial : they have no idea that it is 



