566 Notices of Communications to the Society, of which 



except in Pear trees, on which I have made the rings more 

 than half an inch, and they have always closed up in good 

 time." 



December 5, 1820. Amongst other notices relative to the 

 management of fruit trees, contained in a communication 

 read this day, from M. Dubreui l , Director of the Botanic 

 Garden at Rouen, a Corresponding Member of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, is the following table, containing the 

 result of his experiments and observations on the sorts of 

 Stocks to be used with fruit-trees in different soils. 





Argillaceous. 



Chalky. 





Light Soil. 



Apples. 



Doucin. 



Free Stock. 



Free Stock. 



Doucin. 



Pears. 



Quince Stock. 



Free Stock. 



Free Stock. 



Quince Stock. 



Peach. 



Plum Stock. 



Almond. 



Almond. 



Almond. 



Cherry. 



Wild Cherry. 



Mahaleb. 



Mahaleb. 



Wild Cherry. 



This is a subject which has attracted but little attention 

 amongst gardeners in England, and is highly deserving of 

 enquiry. It will be necessary to give a short account of 

 the different sorts of stocks which are named in the above 

 tabic, and used in France. 



The Apple stocks have already been described at page 411 

 of this volume. The Pomme Franc, or Sauvage (Free Stock) 

 is used usually for the large orchard trees. The Pomme 

 Doucin, for trees which it is wished to obtain of only a mid- 

 dling size. The Pomme Paradise, not mentioned in the above 

 table, is worked only for dwarf garden Apples. The Quince 

 stocks are used for Pears, as the Paradise are for Apples; 

 and the standard Pears are grafted on the Poire Sauvage, 

 called Free Stock in the table. The Prune St. Julien is 



