Round the Year in the Garden 



Pippin (March). Of cooking varieties the following form 

 an excellent dozen : Pott's Seedling (August, September), 

 Lord Suffield (August, September), Stirling Castle 

 (September, October), Ecklinville Seedling (September, 

 October), Bismarck (November, December), Blenheim 

 Orange (November, December), Golden Noble (November, 

 December), Lane's Prince Albert (December, January), 

 Sandringham (January, February), Bramley's Seedling 

 (December to March), Newton Wonder (December to 

 April), and Wellington (December to April). 



Notes on Pears. A luscious Pear is probably chief 

 favourite among hardy fruits ; it is, I think, preferred by 

 most people to an Apple. Pear trees are often less 

 disappointing than Apple trees ; in an amateur's garden 

 they are less likely to fail under injudicious treatment. 

 You may prune a Pear tree by rule of thumb, and it will 

 continue to yield good crops, whereas an Apple tree needs 

 more intelligent management. The Pear bears abundantly 

 from spurs, short stubby growths that form at intervals 

 throughout the full length of the branches. I have seen 

 old Pear trees the branches of which were covered from 

 tip to base with fruit spurs, the result of the simple ortho- 

 dox practice of summer and winter pruning. There is 

 a bewildering choice of varieties, and almost every 

 grower has his favourites. Of those to be recommended 

 generally the following are chief ; the month (or months) 

 in which they are in season is given : Jargonelle (August), 

 Williams' Bon Chretien (September), Fondante d'Automne 

 (September), Conference perhaps the most satisfactory 

 of all varieties for an amateur (October), Louise Bonne of 

 Jersey (October), Thompson's considered by many to be 

 the most delicious Pear (October), Marie Louise (October, 

 November), Beurre Superfin (October, November), Beurre 

 Hardy (October, November), Beurre Diel (November), 

 Doyenne du Cornice (November), Winter Nelis (December), 

 Charles Ernest (November), Josephine de Malines (Decem- 

 ber, January). 



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