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so free a bearer. You saw the fruit of it and Doyenne du Cornice, which I 

 exhibited at South Kensington, on the 17th of November. 



"The tree of Doyenne du Cornice I planted at the same time as the others ; 

 viz., ten years ago. It is growing as a pyramid in a border of the kitchen gar- 

 den : its height is sixteen feet ; it is ten feet through, and six inches in diameter 

 at the base of the stem, and is on the quince-stock. It grows freely, forms a hand- 

 some pyramid, but is a very moderate bearer. I gather four or five times as much 

 fruit from the tree of Winter Nelis I mentioned, as I gather from Doyenne du 

 Comice. The fruit of Winter Nelis has the advantage of lasting much longer 

 in season than that of Doyenne du Comice : the latter, however, is a first-rate 

 pear, generally ripe by the middle of November, and lasts a fortnight in season. 

 The first fruit I exhibited of it was at the Devon and Exeter Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Show, on the nth of November, 1864, in the class for any sort ; and it 

 obtained the second prize. Until then, it was quite unknown in this neighbor- 

 hood. 



" The following are the weights of individual pears grown here this season : — 



Beurre Clairgeau .... 20^ 



Easter Beurre . . . . . 21 



Glout Morceau 15I 



Doyenn^ du Comice . . . 15 J 



OUNCES. 



Van Mons Leon le Clerc . . 14^ 



Chaumontel ..... 14 



Beurr6 de Ranee .... 13^ 



Winter Nelis SJ 



" The Easter Beurre is the same as I have sent, but it is not qviite so heavy 

 now. John Garland, Killerton Gardens. 



" P. S. — At a monthly meeting of the members of the Devon and Exeter 

 Horticultural Society and their gardeners, J. Somer, Esq., exhibited six pears 

 of Uvedale's St. Germain, weighing fourteen and a half pounds. The same 

 gentleman told me he had twenty-four of the same sort, which weighed forty- 

 eight pounds. He resitles in this parish, Broadclyst." — Journal of Horticul- 

 ture and Cottage Gardetter. 



More about the Naomi Raspberry. — The communication of my friend 

 G. W. Campbell, in last month's Journal, was, no doubt, intended as a fair pre- 

 sentation of the adverse side of the Naomi question ; but inasmuch as it casts 

 unjust reflections upon myself and a committee of which I am secretary, and 

 also contains several errors in regard to facts of interest to the public, I ofter a 

 few words in reply. 



Referring to the investigations of the committee of the State Horticultural 

 Society last summer, Mr. Campbell says, the plants found in a private garden 

 on Euclid Street, and which had been bought as Red Antwerp., '"were declared 

 by the experts to be true Naomi beyond doubt or question." Now, as secretary, 

 I was careful to note down all the " declarations " of the committee, whether 

 expressed formally or otherwise ; and I can assert positivery, that no such decis- 

 ion or declaration was made in regard to the raspberries referred to ; though it 

 is true there was found so close a resemblance between them and the so-called 

 Naomi as to make it difficult, if not impossible, for members of the committee 

 (who did not claim to be "experts ") to distinguish them. Subsequent observa- 

 tions have made it quite plain that the plants referred to are Franconia. They 



