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pattern of beds, which forms the outer border 

 to the design, was originated in England, 

 by the Duchess of Bedford, about the year 

 1800. " It is," he remarks, " capable of 

 producing a very brilliant effect, by planting 

 the circular beds, c, with bright colors, each 

 alternating with white. For example, be- 

 ginning at c, and proceeding to the right, 

 we might have dark red, white, blue, white, 

 yellow, white, scarlet, 2vhite, purple, white, 

 and so on. The interlacing beds, d, might 

 be planted on exactly the same principle, 

 but omitting white. Proceeding to the 

 right from the bed d, which may be yellow, 

 the next may be crimson, the next purple, 

 the next orange, and so on." 



This plan is by no means faultless, yet as 

 it is admirably planted with ever-blooming 

 flowers, and kept in the highest order, it is 

 said to attract universal admiration, and is 

 worthy of the examination of our floral 

 friends. We should imagine it much infe- 

 rior, in design and general effect, to the 

 very beautiful new flower garden at Mont- 

 gomery Place, the seat of Mrs. Edwabd 

 Livingston on the Hudson, which is about 

 double its size, and is undoubtedly one 

 of the most beautiful and most taste- 

 fully managed examples of a flower garden 

 in America. Hereafter we may have the 

 pleasure of laying the plan of it before our 

 readers. 



THE BELLE DE BRUXELLES AND PAQUENCY PEARS. 



BY P. BARRY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



[We were much gratified while in the Mount ' 

 Hope Garden, at Rochester, last summer, to 

 find that Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry had 

 succeeded in introducing the true Belle of 

 Brussels pear. We have been familiar 

 with the appearance of this handsome fruit, 

 from a fine colored plate in Noisette's Jar- 

 din Fruitier for years, and have, like other 

 collectors, endeavored to procure it from 

 abroad without success — the Belle et Bonne 

 and the Angleterre, two inferior fruits, al- 

 ways having been received under this 

 name. 



We saw by the first glance at the tree re- 

 ferred to in the following article, that the 

 genuine sort was at last obtained. It is un- 

 doubtedly a scarce variety abroad. We ob- 

 serve by the London Horticultural Society's 

 Catalogue that it has been lost from that 

 collection. We think it likely to prove a 

 very valuable addition to our early fruits. 



Mr. Barry's description is the best we 



have seen of this variety. That in the Jar- 

 din Fruitier is incomplete.* The colored 

 figure in that work, however, shows a fine 

 specimen, and we give an outline from it 

 in the same figure with Mr. Barry's ; a be- 

 ing the outline from the Jar din Fruitier ; h 

 the outline sent us from one of the speci- 

 mens grown at Rochester. In the size of the 

 latter, of course allowance must be made for 

 the enormous crop borne by the tree, of 

 which it was a part. This crop was not 

 quite ripe when we saw the tree, but the 

 specimens were very beautiful in form 

 and color, and we hope the stock of this, 

 the genuine Belle of Brussels, at the Mount 

 Hope Garden, will soon find its way into 

 general cultivation. — Ed.] 



* " Fruit gros, souvent trAs allonge, renfle d la base, jauiie 

 dans rombre, colore en rouge du cote du soleil lorsqu'il est bien 

 expose, autrement restant jaune partout : chair blanche, fon- 

 dant, parfumee, tres bonne ; sa maturile a lieu vers le milieu 

 d'Aout."— p. 121. 



