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made, and it is highly esteemed, especially for bottling, 

 in Dorset this drink is almost unknown, and we were 

 last year greatly surprised that a farmer who had an 

 immense crop of pears of a sort that were not fit for 

 dessert or culinary purposes, could not divine what 

 to do with them, though he made excellent cider. 



We conclude this portion of our subject with a 

 quotation from the Botanical Looker-out, by our old 

 friend and fellow worker, E. Lees, Esq. : — 



A pear oi-chard in exuberant flower is a vegetable spectacle not 

 easily matched, for the bending branches of the pear tree give a grace- 

 fulness to its outline far exceeding the stiff formality of the apple 

 tree, and oppressed with a multitudinous crowd of blossoms its branches 

 almost trail the ground, a bending load of beauty that seems by moon- 

 light a mass of silvery ingots. The Barland Orchard, between Wor- 

 cester and Malvern, containing more than seventy trees, lofty as 

 oaks, cannot be seen by a traveller without admiration, and is the 

 finest in the kingdom, though the trees are now getting old. 



