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Served ^ip as jellies or in pies, or with cream and sngar upon tliem^ 

 whole and uncooked, they are at once healthy, nutritious and pleasant 

 taking. 



DOCTOR REEDER PEAR NOT SUBJECT TO BLIGHT. 



BY S. D. WILLARD, GENEVA, N. Y. 



Noticing an article in the Canadian Horticulturist regarding 

 Dr. Reeder Pear, I want to say a word in its favor. 



I have four trees in my orchard that two years ago withstood th e 

 blight, — when Clapp's Favorite and Beurre d'Anjou all around them 

 were destroyed entirely — and to-day are loaded down with fruit. 

 Although not to the nurseryman a desirable tree to grow, it certainly 

 seems to me as one of the best, providing it sustains its character 

 in these respects. 



A VISIT TO MR. A. GAULD'S GARDEN, LONDON. 



BY ROBERT BURNET, LONDON. 



There is a common but true saying that "Ear fowls have fair 

 feathers." Men are often greatly concerned to know of the distant 

 and the future, while the present and the near have no attractions for 

 them. This is true of matters horticultural as well as of everyday 

 occurrence. Few people who have not seen Mr. Gauld's grapes under 

 glass would believe what an excellent show an amateur can make in 

 the production of gi'apes. Though Mr. Gauld's residence is within 

 five minutes walk of the centre of our busy city, yet he here displays 

 his good taste in rural life in cultivating the choicest selection of 

 Pomona's gifts. His grape house is forty-eight feet long by a corres- 

 ponding breadth, and stocked with a dozen and a half of very fine 

 varieties of indoor grapes. Some idea of Mr. Gauld's self-imposed 

 labor may be gathered from the fact that he cares for, thins, prunes, 

 and keeps in first-rate order sixty-two vines. A thrip was scarcely to 

 be seen, and the whole surroundings were models of neatness. 



Out of doors he can exhibit many of Rogers' varieties of gi-apes, and 

 most of the established sorts generally held in good repute by horti- 

 culturists. His Burnet vines were making good progress, though they 

 have been twice cut down by the frost this season. To give the new 



