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N'o. XI. for September, contains 



41. The Long-stalked Blanquette Pear. " A good early pear, a great 

 bearer, very sweet, crisp, and juicy, and not rotting so quickly as most of 

 the pears of the same season." The wood is strong, of a reddish brown 

 colour, and a little silvery on the lower ends. The fruit is small, egg- 

 shaped, and growing in clusters. 



42. The Belle de Choisy Cherry. Raised at Choisy near Paris in 1760, 

 and from its hardness, sweetness, and bearing well as a standard, well merits 

 cultivation. The tree somewhat resembles the May Duke; the fruit is 

 middle-sized, roundish, and depressed at the apex; the flesh is amber- 

 coloureil. 



45. The Black Naples Currant. A very good variety, and " considered 

 the best of the class ;" the habit of the bush is rather upright, and, though 

 the leaves and blossoms are produced early, the fruit ripens late. 



44. The Black Tartarian Cherry. An excellent cherry, doing best on an 

 east or west wall, where it is usually loaded with rich handsome fruit. The 

 wood is vigorous, the branches spreading, and the fruit " large, heart-shaped, 

 with uneven surface, and of a shining purplish-black colour." The flesh is 

 purplish, rich, and juicy. 



No. XII. for October, contains 



45. The Late Duke Cherry. This cherry is evidently of English origin, 

 though known to us only through the French gardeners. The fruit " is 

 large, the size of a May Duke, bluntly heart-shaped, somewhat compressed, 

 with a shallow depression on one side ;" the skin is of a rich shining red 

 colour, and the flesh of the same quality as a May Duke. The branches are 

 more spreading than the May Duke's and the leaves larger ; the flowers are 

 like the May Duke's, but open later. 



46. The Early Red Margaret Apple, An " excellent summer apple," 

 and one of the oldest varieties ; it is nearly the earliest of all the summer 

 fruit, and " beyond comparison the best. The fruit is middle-sized, roundish 

 oblong, rather angular, tapering to the eye," which is contracted and 

 plaited. The stalk is short and thick, and the skin is of a greenish yellow 

 colour, closely streaked with deep red; the flesh is " white, juicy, breaking, 

 subacid, very I'ich and agreeable, without any perfume or spicy flavour." 

 The leaves are rather large and thick, and the flowers are in large dense 

 clusters, and of a cream colour slightly tinged with red ; the wood is 

 sprinkled with whitish spots at the lower end. 



47. The Old Pine, or Carolina Strawberry . Of universally admitted merit 

 and value. The leaves are of a very deep green, the footstalks long and 

 upright, and the fruit is large, ovate-conical, of a rich bright scarlet colour, 

 while the flesh is paler, rich, and juicy, with a grateful flavour. 



48. The Brunswick Fig. " One of the most useful of the hardy figs," 

 and ripens by the middle of August, trained against a south-eastern corner 

 of a wall. The fruit is very large and fleshy, with peculiarly oblique apex. 

 The skin is of a pale green, with a tinge of yellow ; next the sun it is of a 

 dull brownish red, with small pale brown specks. The flesh is of a pinkish 

 hue in the interior inclining to white towards the skin, and very high 

 flavoured; the stalk is short and thick, and the leaves are deeply five-lobed, 

 the lobes are naiTow and nearly of equal width. 



No. XIII. for November, contains 



49. The Common Elruge Nectarine. This is " one of the very best and 

 most high flavoured of our nectarines; and one of those which are most ge- 



j: neraliy cultivated:" it resembles the Violette Hative, and is distinguished 

 " from it by parting more freely from the stone, and by " the channel in its 



