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NOTES. 
IV. 
In our Society's Journal, Volume XI. at page 13. will be found a verv 
interesting account of Mr. Barron's experiments with different stocks on 
which to graft Apples. 
In 1897 it was found that all the trees on the ' French Paradise ' 
stock had died. The others were all taken up and their roots very 
carefully examined, but not the slightest difference whatever in the form 
or character of the roots could be detected — all the roots were practically 
the same, whatever the stock may have been. 
There are now at Chiswick sets of from six to twelve different (or so- 
called different) stocks, each set of stocks being worked with one and the 
same variety of Apple ; but. with the single exception of those on the 
' French Paradise ' stock, there is no apparent difference in the habit, 
vigour, or fruitfulness of the trees, each tree being almost exactly similar 
to its fellows. The ' French Paradise,' however, has in all cases had the 
result of dwarfing and stunting the tree. 
V. 
Fellow suffering breeds fellow feeling. ^Ve Horticulturists on this 
side of the Channel have recently had great and grievous losses from our 
ranks ; to name none others, — Girdlestone, Rivers, Courtauld, Martin, 
Dunn — how can we hand down to posterity any sufficient idea of the 
magnitude of the loss to English Horticulture suggested by these names ? 
or who will fill their places "? 
Full, then, as our own hearts are of sorrow, we can yet find place for 
very real sympathy with our French gardening friends in the irreparable 
loss they have sustained by the sudden and untimely death of Monsieur 
Henry Leveqne de Vilmorin, Premier Vice-President de la Societe 
Nationals d'Horticulture de France. Our sorrow for him is very real ; 
om love of him was very great. He was a man of world-wide sympathies 
— a Fellow of our own Society — and ' Henry Vilmorin ' always seemed to 
us in England quite an Englishman, only that he spoke French so well. 
It will be very, very long before we meet his like I 
France and England weep together I All Horticulture mourns I 1 
