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APPLE. 



this mode of preserving fruit (particularly pears) by 

 General Caillaud, above fifty years ago, and has been 

 ever since very successful in the practice of it, the 

 manner of which will be adverted to hereafter. 



The author cannot finish this notice of the Burs- 

 dorfi'e apple, without appending to it a few remarks 

 relative to its first introduction into England. It has 

 been said that this fruit (received from Germany) was 

 first planted in the royal gardens, by the senior 

 Mr. W. Alton, soon after his appointment as botanic 

 gardener at Kew ; but this is a mistake. The Burs- 

 dorfiFe was first planted by the senior Mr. Haver6eld, 

 "U'ho was, in the first place, appointed by Lord Bute 

 to the gardens at Kew, then the residence of the 

 Princess Dowager of Wales. On the completion of 

 Kew gardens (the pleasure ground being designed by 

 Sir William Chambers), the botanic department was 

 separated from the other parts, and the whole was 

 offered to Mr. Haverfield, who then superintended 

 Richmond gardens as w^ell as those of Kew. But he, 

 Mr. H., wisely declined ; for though a good gardener, 

 he was no botanist. Thus was an opening made for 

 Mr. Philip Millar's favourite pupil, the worthy Mr. W. 

 Aiton. The writer of these remarks was then a jour^ 

 neyman in Richmond gardens, under Mr. Haverfield, 

 where there were few or no tropical plants ; and as a 

 knowledge of plants was then beginning to be a ne- 

 cessary part of a gardener's education, himself and 

 fellow- workmen in the Richmond garden, envied the 

 young men who were placed in the botanic garden at 

 Kew. This might have been a real misfortune to 



