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parent a greater tendency to canker than on either of the others. 

 I have obtained suckers from each, which I shall plant for com- 

 parison with the new examples. I may state that the suckers 

 of the French Paradise appear to me identical with those in dis- 

 pute, as exhibited by Mr. Rivers and Mr. Mcston, which are 

 decidedly the same the one as the other. I have compared each 

 example with those of the Pommier de Paradis, as received from 

 Messieurs Andre Leroy, of Angers, which w r e have been using in 

 the gardens for the last eight or ten years, and am prepared to 

 state that they are all identical. The French Paradise, where it 

 grows at all vigorous^, j s easily recognized by its reddish brown 

 bark, and the peculiar bulging at the base of the buds on the stem, 

 as shown by the examples produced ; in weak examples this 

 is not so apparent. 



Example no. 1 is the French Paradise, l er choix, as imported. 



Example no. 2 is the French Paradise, 2 me choix, planted and 

 grown twelve months in the garden. 



Examples no. 3 are apples grafted on stocks similar to no. 1, 

 well established when grafted and growing in wet clayey soil. 

 These have not been transplanted or root-pruned for three years. 



Examples no. 4 are apples grafted on stocks similar to no. 2, 

 not established in the ground when grafted. 



The examples are all fairly selected out of some hundreds 

 similar growing in the garden. 



The Pommier de Paradis of Mr. Scott, of Crewkerne, appears 

 distinct from all the others, the shoots being of a lightish brown 

 colour and downy. The climate of Somersetshire may have, 

 however, altered them considerably ; their identity remains to 

 be proved. 



A tree — the identical tree (as I have been informed by Mr. 

 Thompson) of the Dwarf Apple of Armenia which was sent home 

 to the Society by the late Mr. Barker, noticed in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Transactions, who was for many years British 

 Consul in the East, and to whom also we are indebted for the 

 Stanwick Nectarine and many other fruits — still exists in the 

 Gardens. It is in a very healthy state, and will this season pro- 

 duce blossoms, if not fruit. It is growing in very poor soil, and 

 until last spring was much neglected and smothered up with 

 other trees, so that it has not had so fair a chance of developing 

 itself as it should have had. The stem is about the thickness of 

 one's arm, and the tree about 10 or 12 feet high, and as much in 



