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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
From September to J anuary Paris receives by water as many as 
130 boats loaded with about 300,000 Apples each, or 40,000,000 
Apples in all. Normandy, Brittany, Picardy, Artois, and several 
other provinces send their fruit in this way. Some send only just 
what is over, but others send the greater part of all they produce 
to England, which receives at the same time consignments of 
Court-pendu, the Belgian Bclle-fleur, the Dutch Duhhele Gulden 
Beinet,dJidiih.Q Americajn NeiutcnviiPijopin and ^aZcZwm varieties. 
The profit derived from open-air cultivation is all the more 
noticeable on account of the first outlay, and maintenance ex- 
penses, being comparatively small. Round about Paris Apples are 
largely cultivated in gardens for trade purposes. Excellent fruit 
is produced on "cordons," " candelabres," and from walls in the 
open air. At Rosny a wall 4 metres long by 2 metres 80 high, 
facing south, upon which are trained twenty Calville hlanc 
Apple trees twenty years old, is said to yield 1,500 fruits a year, 
sold at 75 cents, each. Another wall near it, where the trees 
are placed closer, has yielded even more fruit. The trees are 
grafted on *'doucin" or "paradise" stocks with a high stem, 
and the greatest care is taken with them. 
The Plum (Prunus). 
The Plum is a tree very suitable for profitable growing, on 
account of its being robust and strong enough to resist the evil 
influences of both soil and climate ; it also requires but little 
attention during cultivation. And further, the fruit is always in 
request, either for drying or for direct consumption, or for 
distillation, and, in fact, for a variety of other household, culinary, 
or manufacturing purposes. 
Market Plantations of Plum Trees. 
I. Dessert Plums, . II. Standard Orchard Trees, 
Heine Claude. Prccoce do Tours. 
Mirabelle. Coe's Golden Drop. 
Des Bc'yonni^res. Mirabelle grossc. 
Favorite hritivc. De Kirkc. 
Monsieur jaune. Damas violet. 
Mirabelle prccoce. Jaune tardive. 
Jaune hativo. Rcinc Claude diaphano. 
Monsieur hatif. Reine Claude d'Althan. 
Tardive musqu6c. Reine Claude violotte. 
