19S Descriptions of Select Vai^ietics of Pears. 



given, both night and day, if possible, and the weather is at 

 all favorable. 



" Those vines which are very heavily laden with fruit may 

 be materially assisted by laying them over another pot filled 

 with good compost, into which they emit roots ; and, by this 

 means, one half the crop may be supported by the original 

 roots, and the other portion by the second pot. By this plan, 

 of course, a large additional supply of roots is provided, and 

 hence the berries are both better colored, and much finer, than 

 they could be under ordinary circumstances." — {Gard. Journ. 

 1847, pp. 308, 309.) 



We need not add any thing to the explicit directions of Mr. 

 Wright. Every amateur will fully appreciate them, and, in 

 connexion with the other articles we have alluded to in our 

 previous volumes, he will be at no loss to produce, at least, a 

 fair crop of grapes on vines in pots. — Ed. 



Art II. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties of 

 Pears. By the Editor. 



We continue our descriptions of new pears, among which 

 will be found some of great excellence, and now, for the first 

 time, figured and fully described : these are the Duchesse 

 d'Orleans, Ferdinand de Meester, and Beurre Crapaud, — all 

 valuable additions to the catalogue of fine pears. 



91. Bezi de Montigny. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 1842. 



Trouv6 de Montigny. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 1842. 

 Doyenn6 Musqu6 (■?) of some French collections. 



The Bezi de Montigny, {^fig. 20,) though estimated as 

 scarcely a second-rate fruit in the Catalogue of the London 

 Horticultural Society, is considered, by many American culti- 

 vators, to be a pear well worthy of a place in good collec- 

 tions. So excellent have been some specimens exhibited 

 before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, that they 



