122 REPORTS OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE, 



Redleaf: Winter Nelis ; Mr. Pabsons, Danesbury Gardens, 

 WelwTu : Winter NeUs; Mr. Spivey, Hallingbury Place, Essex : 

 Glou Moreeau; Mr. J. Hall, gardener to Thomas Lucas, Esq., 

 Lower Grove House, Roehampton : Glou Morcean ; Josiah 

 Moorman, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex: Marie Louise.— The First 

 Prize was aNvarded to Mr. J. Hall for Glou Moreeau ; an Extra. 

 First Prize to Mr. Cox for JVinter Nelis ; and the Second Prize 

 to Mr. Hill for Beurre Diel. 



The circumstances under which Mr. Hall's Glou Moreeau 

 pears were produced at Roehampton were thus stated : — The 

 garden is on the south bank of the Thames, and exposed at all 

 points ; the soil is light and sandy, li- to 2 feet in depth, on a ^ 

 gravelly subsoil ; the surface inclined slightly to the north. The 

 tree is twelve years old, and healthy, grafted on the pear stock, 

 and trained against a west aspect wall, 12 feet high. The shoots 

 are closely pinched in summer, so as to leave but little to do in 

 the way of pruning in winter. The border was top-dressed with 

 vegetable refuse in May, and well watered during the growing 

 season. The specimens exhibited were large, melting, buttery. 



The specimens of Winter Nelis from Mr. Cox, for which an 

 extra first prize was awarded, were well-grown, very smooth- 

 fleshed, buttery, and rich. The circumstances under which these 

 and other fruits exhibited by him were produced, have been 

 already detailed (pp. 20, 29). 



The particulars of the situation, &c., of the garden at Keele 

 Hall, have been given in the case of Knighfs Monarch, sent by 

 Mr. Hill; and, so far, they are equally applicable to the Beurr^ 

 Diel, which gained the second prize. The specimens of the 

 latter were from a south wall, 12 feet high. The tree is very 

 healthy, and about twenty years old, worked on the pear stock ; 

 it is trained horizontally, and spur-pruned in the usual way. It 

 is an excellent bearer, and the fruit becomes fit for use in the 

 middle of November ; but the crop this year was rather thin, 

 owing to spring frosts. The fruit was large, very handsome, and 

 rich-flavoured ; one of the fruit weighed 16 ounces. 



The Winter Nelis, from Mr. Hill, was also very good, and 

 nearly equal to the same sort from Mr. Cox, to which a first 

 prize was awarded. 



The specimens of Winter Nelis from Mr. Robertson were 

 not ripe, but well-grown. The Easter Beurre and Beurre Bance 

 from the aame far-north locality were large ; the latter of these 



