142 The double-flowering Peach. 



to over-bear, as it is inclined to do, the fruit is quite insipid. We regard it 

 as an excellent cooking pear; which, with its other good qualities, renders it 

 a desirable variety. Time of ripening, November and December; though 

 it is often kept all winter. 



This completes our list of twenty varieties, giving a wide range of season, 

 — from the first pear of summer until midwinter, or later, — and an equally 

 wide range in flavor. If we were to plant ten varieties, instead of twenty, 

 we should select Rostiezer, Brandywine, Bartlett, Sheldon, Seckel, Beurr^ 

 d'Anjou, Urbaniste, Beurre Bosc, Lawrence, and Hovey. If we were to 

 reduce the list still lower, and plant for home-use, we should select, as the 

 best five varieties, Bartlett, Seckel, Beurre d'Anjou, Hovey, and Lawrence. 



We have given our opinion of the varieties named quite freely ; but we 

 feel that it is worthy of confidence, because the information has been 

 obtained from actual experience on our own soil. 



If fruit-growers differ from us in regard to these pears, we hope they will 

 be free to express thair opinion in these columns. 



THE DOUBLE- FLOWERING PEACH {Amygdalus Perska fl. pL), 

 AND ITS TREATMENT. 



Not long ago, those who intended to plant flowering shrubs and trees 

 were cautioned against the double-flowering peach. I read it in one of the 

 horticultural magazines, perhaps in this Journal ; but it is not worth while 

 to lose any time in searching for the place where it occurs. I'he reason 

 why the double-flowering peach should be rejected was, " that such trees 

 would soon become unsightly.'''' 



As I have all the known varieties of the double-flowering peach and 

 almond in my grounds, I have had ample opportunity of experimenting with 

 them. My experience coincides exactly with that of the author of the arti- 

 cle alluded to ; for, under ordinary treatment, such trees become really 

 unsightly : the limbs forming their heads increase in thickness, and make 

 young wood only at iheir ends \ so that, in the course of a few years, the 

 trees look like other peach-trees not regularly pruned and pinched. 



