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COURT PENDU PLAT. 
This variety of Apple has been knowTi in England somewhat 
more than thirty years, and has frequently been introduced 
under different names, to our gai’dens, from France and Belgium, 
where it is doubtless a favourite. It is one of the best sorts that 
the amateur who cultivates dwarfs in his flower gai'den can pos- 
sess. Grafted on paradise stocks he may keep it healthy and 
fmitful, and of the size of a gooseberry hush ; or he may culti- 
vate it in a pot if he has a fancy for doing so. It would be 
difficult to describe the astonishment we have seen exhibited by 
cider-apple cultivators, on seeing such pets as these in pots, and 
bearing well-grown fmit ; these ar'e indeed oriraments well wor- 
thy of attention, both for pleasure and profit. 
The Court pendu plat has an open large eye, in a wide, moder- 
ately deep, even basin ; short stalk, in a deep cavity : when in 
perfectioir, from Christmas to Lady-day, it assumes a deep yellow 
colour, with a slightly-striped red tint orr the sunned side. Its 
flesh is yellow, firm, crisp, sweet, and richly flavoured. 
The tree succeeds admirably as a standar-d, for which pur- 
pose it should be grafted orr seedhrrg apple or crab stocks. Its 
brarrches grow healthily, but short-jointed, and fraritful at an 
early age. It requires but little pmning, especially if the points 
of its young shoots are pinched off soon after Midsummer. As 
a dwarf, in the garden, any free-growing shoots should be short- 
ened, to encourage the growth of laterals where they appear’ to be 
required to balance the body of the tree ; and when this is effected 
and the rniniatirre tree is nearly as lar’ge as is desu’able, if it be 
not fnritful, and grows rather freely, cut back its roots, in the 
latter part of the summer, to about eighteen inches from the 
stem, and its growth wfU be quickly brought under control, and 
its fr-uitfulness never failing. 
