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months of July, August, and September. They may then satisfy themselves 

 of the real merits of a variety, by examining well-managed pyramids from 

 10 to 25 years old, growa on the pear stock, and bearing fruit in abundance 

 in a situation exposed to the winds, and to all the severities of the seasons. 



The varieties enumerated in the above list have nearly or 

 quite all been described at some length in our previous vol- 

 umes, but we give them here in order to show what M. 

 Jonghe considers " in every respect worthy of commenda- 

 tion " in Belgium. The Doyenne Sentelet, Duchesse of 

 Angonleme, Josephine de Malines, Jean De Witte, Colmar d' 

 Aremberg, Delices de Jodoigne. Nouveau Poiteau, Soldat La- 

 boiu'eur, Beurre Bretonneau, Vicomte de Spoelberg, and Tri- 

 omphe de Jodoigne, have long fruited in our collections, and 

 are Avell known : Louise Bonne d'Avranches, is the same as 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey : Seigneur Esperen is the same as 

 Belle Lucrative : Marie Louise Nouvelle is the same as Marie 

 Louise : Cumberland, is undoubtedly the Cumberland of R. L 

 The others, though several of them have fruited, are still but 

 little known, and have yet to be fully tested in our climate. 

 We trust they may all have a fair trial, and not be hastily set 

 aside for others. — Ed. 



EUGENIA UGNI— A NEW FRUIT-BEARING SHRUB. 



In our volume for 1852, we gave a brief account of this 

 new ornamental shrub, which had then just been introduced 

 to English collections from South America. With the habit 

 of a myrtle, and bearing a profusion of globular heath-like 

 flowers, it was considered a fine addition to their hardy shrubs. 

 But subsequent information has proved it to be a decided ac- 

 quisition for its fruit-bearing qualities, producing a berry as 

 large as a black currant, and ranking in flavor Avith the Peach 

 or Green Gage plum. 



In England it has proved quite hardy, though it came from 

 a region too warm to indulge any such hope in our northern 

 climate. In the South, however, probably as high up as 

 Washington, it will undoubtedly prove hardy, and there form 



