54 Notes and Gleanings. 



A Stormy Autumn. — We have never known a season which might so 

 properly be called " the storm autumn " as that just past, and it seems, by the 

 following paragraph from the Gardener's Magazine, that the fruit trees have 

 sutfered from storms in Old England as well as in New England. 



•' The Late Gales. Our Standard Frtiit Crops. — The late sweeping gales 

 have made sad havoc amongst our standard apples and pears ; in fact, in my 

 own case, those left on the trees will not pa}' for the gathering. Although the 

 fruit has been regularly picked up for some days past, the ground is literally 

 covered with windfalls. Most of the crops are very much infested by maggot, 

 and, consequently, fall the more readily. Unless we have resources at present 

 unknown, our standard fruits will realize, this coming winter, fabulous prices. 

 I would advise housewives to commence preserving all they possibly can without 

 delay, whilst fruit can be bought cheap, especially those who have large families ; 

 for fruit is not only a luxury, but both food and medicine ; doubtless so designed 

 by the Great Purveyor of the animal kingdom. The effects of the storm have 

 been the same on all kinds. I had good crops of Williams's Bon Chretien, 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey, Napoleon, Gansel's Bergamot, Glout Morceau, Catil- 

 lac, Easter Beurre, Beurr6 Ranee, Brown Beurre, and several other sorts of 

 pears, which, with the apples, have shared the same fate. Let us hope that some 

 of our growers, both home and Continental, have escaped. George Fay. 



" Lee, Kent." 



The Golden Feverfew. — It is no use for any one to worry about getting 

 up a stock of this plant from cuttings, because it makes much the best and 

 neatest edging whe"n raised from seed. If the seed is sown in heat, on the 20th 

 of March, and nursed on until the beginning of May, the plants will be just in 

 their prime when the other bedders are at their best. If sown much before that 

 time, they begin to flower earlier, which necessitates a constant picking off of 

 the flowers and the disfigurement of the i)lants. y. C. C. 



Beurre Lade Pear. — Our illustration and description of this new variety 

 are from the " Revue Horticole." 



The fruit is of good size, well formed, and of a beautiful color ; either calabash 

 or quince shaped, sometimes swollen and knobby, like a Bon Chretien. It takes 

 a rich carmine vermilion tint on a ground of the color of fresh butter, having 

 previously been of an apple green, splashed with red and stippled with brown. 

 The stem is quite long, in a slight depression, as is also the eye, which is sur- 

 rounded by somewhat pointed knobs. The flesh is white, almost fine, melting, 

 juicy, and sugary, rendered piquant by a delicate aroma, more refined than that 

 of tlie de Tongres pear, and, upon the whole, of exquisite quality. It ripens from 

 October to December, but the average season is November. The fruit is abun- 

 dant, and holds well to the tree ; it is an excellent sort for dessert or market. 

 It was originated by M. Gregoire-Nelis of Jodoigne, who for four years has sent 

 us its fruit, which has always been of the first quality. This year we have 

 gathered some in our school of fruits, and are certain of the fertility of the tree 

 and of the excellence of llie fruit. We have dedicated it to M. le Consul Lade, 



