80 THK FLORIST. 



originated at Mons in Belgium. Such a mistake might have easily 

 occurred. 



23. Williams^ Bonchretien. Fruit large, of long irregular shape, 

 and very uneven in its outline. Skin thin, mottled green, and full 

 of russety specks, slightly tinged with red on the side next the sun, 

 and changing to a clear yellow when ripe. Eye prominent. Calyx 

 short. Stalk an inch long, stout and fleshy, inserted in a slight 

 cavity. Flesh tender, melting, very juicy, and musky. In season 

 from the end of August to the middle of September. The tree is of 

 upright growth, hardy, and fruitful. 



'J'his is an English pear of great merit; it originated in the gar- 

 den of Mr. Wheeler, of Aldermaston in Berkshire, about eighty years 

 ago, and was named after a Mr. Williams, a London grower. No 

 garden should be without it. It stands unrivalled as an early pear. 



Frogmore. J. Powell. 



REVIEW. 



Practical Observations on the Cultivation of the Pelargonium ; with 

 Calendar of Operations. By John Dobson, Woodlands Nursery, 

 Isleworth. 

 This is a highly useful pamphlet, consisting of fourteen pages. If 

 we do not discover any thing very new in it, there is nothing that 

 is not good; and such as we can recommend to be followed. The 

 Calendar will be found to afford great assistance to the inexperienced 

 in Pelargonium culture. 



CULTIVATION OF THE EPACRIS. No. III. 



{Concluded from p. 45.) 

 General management. Summer culture commences about the month 

 of March. If the plants have been rightly managed the previous 

 season, they will not require potting (except young ones) ; all that 

 will be necessary will be to remove a thin portion of soil from the 

 surface and replace it with a covering of fresh earth : this is called 

 top-dressing, and is very beneficial. Fresh roots will strike into it, 

 and thus enable the plants to bring out their blooms finer and more 

 perfectly. As soon as it is done, give a good watering to settle the 

 fresh earth, and then give a trimming up by so training-in the 

 blooming shoots that the whole bush will be equally covered with 

 them. Afterwards fresh arrange the plants on the stage. If the 

 pots are dirty, or covered with moss, let them be clean washed. No- 

 thing gives a greenhouse a more slovenly, unhealthy appearance than 

 dirty pots ; the plants themselves, though managed rightly in every 

 other particular, do not thrive so well in pots covered with dirt or 

 moss. Air is necessary to the roots as well as the leaves, and it 

 cannot penetrate through a thick coating of dirt so well as through 

 a clean-washed pot. 



