merica,' pp. 276, 278, 314, 284, 276, 310. Mr. Rivers
raised ('Gard. Chron.,' 1863, p. 27) from the Prune-peche, which bears
large, round, red plums on stout robust shoots, a seedling which bears
oval, smaller fruit on shoots that are so slender as to be almost
pendulous.

[689] 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1855, p. 726.

[690] Downing's 'Fruit Trees,' p. 278.

[691] 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1863, p. 27. Sageret, in his 'Pomologie
Phys.,' p. 346, enumerates five kinds which can be propagated in France by
seed: _see_ also Downing's 'Fruit Trees of America,' p. 305, 312, &c.

[692] Compare Alph. De Candolle, p. 248. 'Geograph. Bot.,' p. 877; Bentham
and Targioni-Tozzetti, in 'Hort. Journal,' vol. ix. p. 163; Godron, 'De
l'Espece,' tom. ii. p. 92.

[693] 'Transact. Hort. Soc.,' vol. v., 1824, p. 295.

[694] Ibid., second series, vol. i., 1835, p. 248.

[695] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 138.

[696] These several statements are taken from the four following works,
which may I believe, be trusted. Thompson, in 'Hort. Transact.,' _see_
above; Sageret's 'Pomologie Phys.,' 1830, pp. 358, 364, 367, 379;
'Catalogue of the Fruit in the Garden of Hort. Soc.,' 1842, pp. 57, 60;
Downing, 'The Fruits of America,' 1845, pp. 189, 195, 200.

[697] Mr. Lowe states in his 'Flora of Madeira' (quoted in 'Gard. Chron.,'
1862, p. 215) that the _P. malus_, with its nearly sessile fruit, ranges
farther south than the long-stalked P. _acerba_, which is entirely absent
in Madeira, the Canaries, and apparently in Portugal. This fact supports
the belief that these two forms deserve to be called species. But the
characters separating them are of slight importance, and of a kind known to
vary in other cultivated fruit-trees.

[698] _See_ 'Journ. of Hort. Tour,' by Deputation of the Caledonian Hort.
Soc., 1823, p. 459.

[699] H. C. Watson, 'Cybele Britannica,' vol. i. p. 334.

[700] Loudon's 'Gardener's Mag.,' vol. vi., 1830, p. 83.

[701] _See_ 'Catalogue of Fruit in Garden of Hort. Soc.,' 1842, and
Downing's 'American Fruit Trees.'

[702] Loudon's 'Gardener's Magazine,' vol. iv., 1828, p. 112.

[703] 'The Culture of the Apple,' p. 43. Van Mons makes the same remark on
the pear, 'Arbres Fruitiers,' tom. ii., 1836, p. 414.

[704] Lindley's 'Horticulture,' p. 116. _See_ also Knight on the
Apple-Tree, in 'Transact. of Hort. Soc.,' vol. vi. p. 229.

[705] 'Transact. Hort. Soc.,' vol. i., 1812, p. 120.

[706] 'Journal of Horticulture,' March 13th, 186