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diameter. Mr. Thompson always considered it identical with the 

 Trench Paradise ; and no man has had a better opportunity of 

 examining them and arriving at a conclusion. It appears to me 

 slightly different from the French Paradise of Leroy, and more 

 nearly resembling that of Mr. Scott. They have been grown 

 under very dissimilar conditions, however, so that that point can- 

 not be settled. 



None of the stocks used in the Society's Gardens have ever 

 suffered and been injured by frost in the manner of those of the 

 English Paradise exhibited by Mr. Scott, which were very much 

 cankered ; and the French Paradise seems to succeed best in the 

 wet clayey soils, as exemplified by ~No. 3. I have never seen the 

 slightest tendency to canker, excepting with the trees now nearly 

 fifty years of age. 



The Pigmy and Miniature Paradise stocks of Mr. Eivers can- 

 not be distinguished from weak examples of the true French 

 Paradise. 



The grafted examples exhibited by Mr. Eivers on the Nonesuch 

 English Paradise and the Broad-leaved English Paradise, were 

 very excellent, about similar in vigour to those on the French 

 Paradise exhibited by Mr. Meston, and also in their rooting-pro- 

 perties. Those on the French Doucin in both lots were stronger 

 and not so fibry-rooted as the three former. Mr. Eivers's ex- 

 amples on the French Paradise are weak and wanting in vigour, 

 about equal to those of "No. 2 from the Society's Gardens. 



All of the examples exhibited supported the statements made 

 by the parties interested. It is, however, an easy matter with 

 such things as Apple-stocks, in which there is so much variation 

 in respect to health, vigour, &c, and even of the different growths 

 of the Apples worked upon them, to select examples to uphold 

 any opinion that may be given respecting them. A true know- 

 ledge of their respective merits can only be obtained by direct 

 comparisons ; and now that all these may be seen growing side by 

 side in the Society's Garden, any one may examine them for him- 

 self, and draw his own conclusions therefrom. 



A. F. Barron, 



