364 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
(5) That no very satisfactory conclusion was arrived at as to the 
original habitat of the true French Paradise. 
However, two interesting results arose out of the controversy. 
Attention was drawn to the possibility of identifying various types by 
means of a detailed botanical description, and the idea was mooted of 
planting comparative trial plots of trees worked on the ' French,' 
' Doucin,' and 'English' stocks.* Ultimately the correspondence 
elicited an article from M. J. Decaisne on the ' Paradise Apple,' f in 
which he bears witness to the state of affairs in France when he says : 
" The flowers sent to me [those of Mr. Scott's Paradise stock] corre- 
spond to those of the Paradise Apple of some nurseries, and to those of 
the Doucin of others." 
Meanwhile the general interest in the stock question was being 
reflected in two quarters — the Gardens of the Royal Horticultural 
Society at Chiswick and in the commercial nurseries. 
The Royal Horticultural Society's Journal of 1872 bears witness 
to the fact that Mr. A. F. Barron had been trying various grafting 
experiments in 1867, though he does not seem then to have specialized 
on Paradise stock. However, two years later there appeared in the 
Gardeners' Chronicle { a preliminary account of a collection of Paradise 
stocks collected at Chiswick by Mr. Barron. Five types of Paradise 
are there mentioned by name. The general remarks are interesting as 
showing the striking tendencies to variation in growth and precocity 
of the unworked stocks, but the particular descriptions of these are 
too meagre to be very useful for identification purposes. The article 
foreshadowed a report by Mr. Barron. 
The Journal of the R.H.S. vol. xi. (1889) contains an article by 
Mr. Barron entitled " Experiments in Grafting Apples at Chiswick, 
1875-84." The article is very brief. It starts by enumerating the 
various types of Apple stocks by name, which were collected at Chis- 
wick, together with the sources whence they came. They were received 
from both English and French sources, and they were : 
1. The French Paradise or Pommier du Paradis — identical from 
English and French sources. 
2. Rivers' Miniature Paradise and Pigmy Paradise — which Mr. 
Barron considered identical. 
3. English Nonsuch (Rivers'). 
4. Broad-leaved English (Rivers'). 
* The principal articles referred to appeared in Gard. Chron. 1869, as follows : 
Pp. 6, Apple Stocks, T. Rivers. 
Pp. 51, ,, W. Robinson. 
Pp. 79, „ J. Scott. 
Pp. 110, ,, T. Rivers. 
At the time, the idea of quoting the botanical descriptions of M. Carriere, 
editor of the Revue Horticole, was ridiculed in the following words : " The idea of 
giving a botanical description of an Apple Stock is most erudite — most impos- 
ing " ; but it is to be hoped that it will be realized to-day that this lack of atten- 
tion to accurate detail in the past very largely accounts for the present lack of 
knowledge, M. Carriere' s descriptions are most useful, and it is greatly to be 
regretted that we have not equally good descriptions of more of the various 
forms. 
f Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 442. J Gard. Chron., April 25, 1874. 
