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20 inches deep ; subsoil, retentive clay ffom lH to 15 feet deep. 

 The garden is drained to the depth of from 3 to 3 feet. The 

 surface forms a slope to the south and south-west. The tree is 

 on the quince stock, and trained against an espalier ; it is 

 13 years old, very healthy, and free from canker ; was surface 

 planted 11 years ago, and the soil where it is growing is annually 

 top-dressed with rotten dung. The branches are trained horizon- 

 tally 10 inches apart, and closely spur-pruned. The blossoms are 

 protected in spring with fir-boughs, &c. During the last seven 

 years the tree has never failed of a crop ; that of last year was 

 very heavy ; in the present season the crop was a fair average 

 one. The specimens exhibited, and which gained the first prize, 

 were large and almost uniformly covered with fine, smooth, 

 cinnamon-coloured russet ; the flesh was very juicy, melting, and 

 rich. Finer specimens of this sort were perhaps never exhibited. 



It appears from the schedule returned by Mr. Allpokt, that 

 the specimens of Beurre cVAremherg exhibited by him were pro- 

 duced under precisely the same circumstances as those he has 

 already detailed with reference to the Passe Colmar. From the 

 circumstance of the fruit being very fine and obtaining the second 

 prize, notwithstanding the northern locality, it may be concluded 

 that the Beurre cVAremherg can be successfully cultivated in that 

 part of the country. 



Mr. Cox refers to p. 29 for details of the circumstances under 

 which the fruit exhibited by him were produced. His Beurre 

 cVAremherg pears were gathered from a graft on the lower part of 

 the tree on which those of the Beurre Bance were produced, which 

 gained the first prize on March 1st, 1859. The fruit exhibited on 

 the present occasion was not, however, so fine nor so sugary as 

 those grown by Mr. Keid against an espalier. In fact, the 

 Beurre cVAremherg generally proves better flavoured from a 

 standard or an espalier than from a wall ; from which latter 

 situation it frecjuently has too much acidity, 



Mr. Moore stated that the fruit sent by him was from grafts 

 inserted about jiO years ago on the upper part of an old GanseVs 

 Bergamot, grown against a west wall; the situation rather low 

 and wet; the soil deep and cool. The fruit partook of the 

 acidity above alluded to. 



Open Class.— The competitors, and the sorts they brought 

 forward, were as follow :— Mr. Hill, KeeleHall: Beurre Diel, 

 and Winter Nelis; Mr. Eobebtson, Duflfus House: Winter 

 Nelis, Easter Beuire, and Beurre Eance; Mr. Cox, F H.S., 



