O HORTICULTURAL MEMOIRS. 



a Guernsey winter, and flourishes in the greatest 

 luxuriance. 



In the production of many fruits, the gardens 

 of this island are no less remarkable. The supe- 

 riority of its Chaumontelle pear is well known, 

 a superiority which the grafts imported into 

 England do not retain. Yet in this respect it 

 yields to its neighbour, Jersey ; and I may add, 

 for the consolation of English gardeners, that 

 this pear, even in these islands, is reared under 

 the warmest walls, succeeding but indifferently 

 in any other situation. The purple and green 

 fig grow readily as standard trees, and produce 

 perfect fruit every year. Many varieties of the 

 melon ripen without glasses. The Romana is 

 even raised in Jersey, without the assistance of 

 the hand glass, and is cultivated there in large 

 quantities. The usual method of proceeding 

 with it, is to dig a hole in the earth, into which 

 is thrown a small quantity of hot dung, and 

 above that ten or twelve inches of earth. The 

 seeds are then sown, and the young plants, al- 

 though sometimes covered with hand glasses for 

 a time, are often left entirely to nature. 



The attempts to raise Oranges have not been 

 numerous, but in different gardens there are 

 trees of the Seville and sweet orange, both 

 standing under the shelter of a wall, and pro- 

 ducing fruit in abundance every year. They 

 require, however, to be protected by mats in the 



