§ III. THE SCHOOL OF FRUIT-TREES. 



This enclosure, situated between the botanic 

 garden and that of economical plants, is 240 feet 

 in extent from east to west, and 166 from north 

 to south. It is divided into sixty beds 3 feet and a 

 half wide, separated by paths of 3 feet, and bor- 

 dered by varieties of the strawberry ; and con- 

 tains more than eleven hundred species or varie- 

 ties of fruit-trees, methodically arranged, and 

 placed from 3 to 9 feet apart, according to their 

 size. The first beds are occupied by trees or shrubs 

 yielding berries, as the currant, raspberry, grape, 

 and mulberry ; the second division, by those bear- 

 ing drupes or stone-fruit, as the cherry, plum, 

 apricot, etc. ; the third, by those with ligneous 

 seeds, as the medlar, source, and date plum ; the 

 fourth, by those whose seeds are a kernel covered 

 with a pellicle, as the apple and sorb apple, and 

 by those with juicy fruit, as the fig ; and the fifth, 

 by those of which the kernel is contained in a 

 hard or cartilaginous shell, and is the only part 

 eaten : this class may be subdivided into two, in 



