A NEW PEAR. DE LACR01X 



This excellent variety is of wild origin, having accident 

 sprung up, about forty years ago, in the Park of Lacr< 

 de-Blere, situated in the midst of the fertile nmntn 

 Touraine, which has been justly termed « the Garden 

 France. * The proprietor, M. Ed. Andre, 

 editor of the Illustration Horticole 

 has religiously preserved the mother 

 plant in the dendrological collection 

 he has been forming there for some 

 years past. The tree is of vigorous 

 growth and narrow, erect habit, nearly 

 all of the branches ascending. Every 

 second year it produces a crop of se- 

 veral hectolitres of fruit, having some 

 resemblance to the Doyennt tfhiver, 

 and furnishes a capital dessert in 

 December and January. We have just 

 tasted some of its fruit sent to us by 

 M. Andre, and we are able to say with 

 certainty that it bears carriage well, 

 without injury, a valuable quality in 

 these times of exportation of large 

 quantities to foreign countries. 



As it grows, 



i normal state, with- 



out having been grafted, trained, 

 pruned, or otherwise artificially assis- 

 ted, it produces fruit below the me- 

 dium size, of an ovoid shape, projecting at the base. Eye large 

 and conspicuous, set in a shallow depression: calyx lobes 

 long, acute and persistent. Stalk from 10 to 12 lines long, 

 woody, straight and slender, inserted in an abruptly depressed 

 cavity of moderate depth. The smooth, even, firm, thick skin 

 is of a pretty yellow, when ripe, sprinkled with russet spots. 



ESSAY ON ACCLIMATIZATION IN THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



Is it possible to acclimatize or accustom plants to live 

 ilourish in the open air under the influences of a fresh dim 

 differing in temperature from that of the place whence t 

 , vU ere brought? We reply no, if immediate accliimitizatm 

 the aim, and especially if the divergences in temperate* 

 the original and adopted climate are great. But in s 

 If these variations, we should look for success if the .fe- 

 at acclimatization are pursued in a rational manner. 



Like beings of the animal kingdom, plants acquire cor 

 tutiims . characters and forms suitable to the elunatc 

 the medium in which nature has placed them. They 

 organised, in a normal state, at least, for the region i 

 thev rxist. and not for a diiVereni one whither t «e> 



ted. Bol 





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whence th 

 to plants, and we should 

 they are concerned, that 

 acclimatization, it is of 



