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are sent to show the tendency of our old kinds of apples to pro- 

 duce from seed surface-rooting dwarf trees ; they have not yet 

 been employed as stocks to graft apples on, owing to their feeble 

 growth ; they were raised here from seeds some years since. 



One lateral single Cordon Apple-tree on the English Paradise 

 stock, five years old. 



One vertical Cordon Apple-tree on the same kind of stock, and 

 of the same age. 



One lateral single Cordon Apple-tree on the Trench Paradise 

 stock, five years old, an imported tree from Prance ; the three 

 last-mentioned trees have been growing side by side in a stiff cold 

 clayey soil. 



The trees, after examination, to be sent to the garden at Chis- 

 wick, if agreeable to the Committee. 



Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Chiswich, 

 February 10, 1869. 



The fruit-tree stocks which were submitted for the opinion of 

 the Scientific Committee at its last Meeting by Mr. Rivers, Mr. 

 Scott, of Crewkerne, and Mr. Meston, having been sent down to 

 Chiswick, to be there tested comparatively, I have thus had a 

 good opportunity of examining them, and noting the differences 

 amongst them, as well as of comparing them with those which 

 have been used in the gardens of the Society. 



Without attempting to decide who is right or who is wrong in 

 this discussion, or even to pass a single opinion on their re- 

 spective merits, I shall merely, having a few facts to commuicate, 

 submit the same to your notice, as possibly they may prove of 

 some little interest. 



In an old numerical list of the orchard trees in the Society's 

 garden, Chiswick, in Dr. Lindley's writing, dated 1822, the 

 stocks on which the various apples are worked are stated, viz. the 

 Crab, the Doucin, the English Paradise and the Prench Paradise ; 

 many of the identical examples given still exist in the gardens, 

 and all have formed large orchard trees. Those on the Crab and 

 Doucin have formed considerably larger heads and trunks than 

 than those on the English and Prench Paradise, which are as 

 nearly as possible equal, some of the latter, however, are fully 

 six inches in diameter. All of them are of about equal fertility ; 

 but in the case of those on the Prench Paradise there is ap- 



