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logues. It sometimes grows very large, and is a liandsome, 

 melting Pear, though not so rich as the IMarie Louise and 

 many others. It may be mentioned that it is sometimes 

 exposed for sale as the Marie Louise in Covent Garden 

 IMarket. 



FoRELLE or Trout Pear. 



The origin of this is not exactly known. Dr. Diel says, 

 *' Long as I have collected fruits, and searched the gardens 

 in the neiglibourhood of the Rhine, furnished with French 

 sorts, I have found no fruit like tlie ' Forellenhirne^' We 

 may therefore prourUy call this a national variety, which 

 most probably originated in Northern Saxony. It is a 

 valuable addition to our stock of winter pears, which may 

 compete with the very best French sorts, ripening at the 

 same period, and far surpassing them in the length of period 

 of keeping in perfection, and in its beauty." It is rare to 

 find a pear with a brilliant colour and flesh so fine and 

 melting as this is. Those witli a bright colour are usually 

 astringent and coarse ; this, on the contrary, has a remark- 

 ably smooth flesh, and rich pleasant flavour. Tlie tree 

 blossoms at a very early period of the season — so early that 

 in the past spring the young fruit was so far advanced as to 

 resist the 9^ of frost which killed most of the other kinds 

 only then in blossom. A good bearer, and a healthy vigorous 

 tree. The specimens exhibited were from an east aspect. 

 From a soutii wall, or even from a well-exposed standard, 

 the fruit is higher coloured, with more distinctly ocellated 

 spots. 



Books Presented. 



The Gardener's Magazine of Botany, &c., Part XI. From the Publishers. 

 Bulletin de la Societe Centrale d'Horticultiire du Departement de la Seine Infe- 



rieure, tome IV. Premier Cahier. From the Horticultural Society of IJouen. 

 The Athensum for November. From the Editor. 



January 14, 1851. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Andrew Lawson, Esq., Aldborough Manor, Bo- 

 roughbridge; and S. H. Good, Esq., 21, Upper Hamilton 

 Terrace, St. John's Wood. 



Awards. Large Silver Medal ; To Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing 

 Park, F.H.S., for beautiful cut spikes of Amherstia nobilis. 

 This is the second year in \\ hich Mrs. Lawrence has suc- 

 ceeded in flowering this fine stove tree, which has also blos- 

 somed this season with Mr. Ingram, in the Royal Gardens 

 at Frogmore. Much difficulty has been experienced in 



