By Mom. Charles Francois Pierard. 431 



All Silvanges are rather tender, they require a good soil 

 and a sheltered situation, to ensure handsome and good fruit. 

 When planted in too strong a soil, either dry or moist, and in 

 an exposed situation, they are almost always barren, and soon 

 become covered with moss and lichens, and produce only 

 small cracked fruit, which generally perish before they become 

 perfectly ripe. 



