separate Accounts have not been published, 4 1 \ 



old, inserted into branches of productive trees, will form 

 fruit-bearing branches in the succeeding year, and thus the 

 quality of the produce of such seedlings can be ascertained in 

 the third year from their first production from seed. 



April 8, 1820. In notices received of Grafted Apple- 

 trees from the French gardeners, some are described as being 

 worked " sur Doucin." M. Noisette, in a letter to the Se- 

 cretary, received at the above date, explains the peculiarities 

 of this stock in the following manner. " In reply to your 

 enquiries relative to the stock which the French nurserymen 

 call Doucin, I have to inform you that it is intermediate 

 between the Pommier Paradis (Paradise stock), and the 

 Pommier franc (Free stock), being larger than the former, 

 and less than the latter. We work our choice varieties of 

 Apples on the Paradis, to obtain trees of small size for bor- 

 ders or for walls. We use the Doucin for various dessert Ap- 

 ples, where we can allow the trees to occupy a greater space, 

 or to be trained in the different forms, en pyramide, quenouille, 

 eventail, or gobelet, according to the fancy of the gardener; 

 and the pommier franc attaining the greatest elevation, we 

 graft on it the kitchen or cyder fruits." 



April 17th, 1820. Mr. John Mearns, Gardener to 

 William Hanbury, Esq. at Shobden Court, near Leo- 

 minster, in a letter to the Secretary, details his practice of 

 obtaining Cucumber Plants for the winter crop, in the stove, 

 from cuttings in the autumn. He finds that the plants raised 

 from cuttings are less succulent, and therefore do not so 

 readily damp off, or suffer from the low temperature to which 

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