PEARS VARIETIES FOR GROWING UNDER GLASS. 147 



" For August, in our cold house, Jargonelle, Beurre Giffard, Clapp's Favourite, and 

 Beurr^ de PAssohiption are grown. In September we have Williams' Bon Chretien, 

 Summer Beurre' d'Aremberg, Beurre d'Amanlis, Beurre* Superfin, and Souvenir du 

 Congres. October, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Fondante d'Automne, Jersey Gratioli, 

 Beurre Hardy, King Edward's, Thompson's, and Brown Beurre'. November, Doyenne 

 Boussoch, Marie Louise, Marechal de Cour, Beurre Bosc, Brockworth Park, Gregoire 

 Bourdillon, and Van Mons Ldon Leclerc. December, Baronne de Mello, Glou Morcjeau, 

 Pitmaston Duchess, Doyenne du Cornice, General Todleben, Durondeau, Duchesse 

 d'Angoulme, Marie Louise d'Uccle, Emile d'Heyst, Prince Consort, Beurre Clairgeau, 

 Beurre Diel, Beurre Bachelier, Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre d'Aremberg, Passe Colmar, and 

 Princess. January, Winter Nelis, Marie Benoist, and Knight's Monarch. February, 

 March, and April, Passe Crasanne, Bergamotte Esperen, Napoleon, Easter Beurre, 

 and Bern-re* Eance. For cooking purposes I grow Bellissime d'Hiver, Catillac, and 

 Uvedale's St. Germain. These are all planted out, as the engraving represents, although 

 many more are grown in pots." 



Many of the handsome specimens seen at shows are grown under glass. An 

 amateur carries off the chief prizes for pears at a local show by growing his trees in 

 1 0-inch pots, placing them under a verandah at night when in blossom and there is a 

 prospect of frost, standing them outside in the daytime when mild, and when frosts are 

 gone the pots are plunged in a warm situation outdoors, where they remain until the 

 following spring. Another amateur grows his prize pears in a similar manner, shelter- 

 ing them in an outhouse in spring, and plunging the pots in summer in a warm garden 

 with a south aspect, and secures handsome, juicy, full-flavoured fruits. Many other 

 amateurs may do likewise. 



For large supplies of fruit a house similar to that shown, Fig. 17, page 33, Vol. II., 

 may be employed, and the forms in which the pear trees are grown is a matter of taste. 

 Guidance, however, on that point, and the routine management of apple trees planted 

 in borders or grown in pots are given in Vol. II., pages 32 36, and pears require 

 exactly the same treatment. All the varieties of pears named for exhibition may be 

 cultivated with great advantage under glass. 



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 DISEASES or PEARS. 



Canker. The form caused by the fungus, Nectria ditissima, is less prevalent in 

 pear than apple trees, and has been fully treated in Yol. L, page 229. Other cankerous 



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