API PETIT ; OR, AMERICAN LADY APPLE. 
and described as a small delicate Apple, white and red. It also 
bears the name Api rouge, and Etoilee. 
In flavour the Lady Apple is less remarkable than for beauty. 
It is sufficiently sweet, with very little acid; pleasant, but 
devoid of any peculiar aroma. It keeps well till April, in 
which month our drawing was made ; but it is desirable that 
it should hang as long on the tree as the season will permit. 
In the cultivation of this tree it should be grafted on a 
Paradise stock, to be retained as a dwarf in the milder parts 
of England; but in cold districts it would be advisable to give 
it a place on a wall, inclining to the south, where its frait will 
become finer and higher coloured. Although liable to canker, 
it assumes a free growth, and sometimes its branches become 
much crowded. Its shoots, after Midsummer, should be short- 
ened about a third of their length, that the portion left may 
be the better matured ; and summer thinning also should be 
attended to, this being preferable to learing the whole of the 
reduction to be effected by \rinter pmning. When a tree is in 
a growing state, if a branch be cut from it, a sui^plus of sap, it 
may be presumed, will arise to be disposed of. It is time that 
a reduced evajiorating surface of leaves, &c., will remain to 
encourage the ascent of fluids ; but still, the vessels of the 
timnk and larger branches, in immediate connexion ivith the 
portions cut out, will have attained a habit of transmitting a 
certain amount of sap upwards, and the superabundance thus 
to be disposed of, after pruning, will, whilst the tree, in sum- 
mer, is in a growing state, be ultimately taken up by other 
branches, much to their benefit. If the milking of a cow be 
suddenly discontinued, the habit of secreting that fluid ivill 
not as suddenly cease ; but, ultimately, other vessels will be 
more abundantly fed, and the consequence will be an im- 
proved condition of the animal. 
