THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 









• What vicrour ..." 





:eased Dean of Mancbes- 



I printed « Ossiani Dai 



popular and trivial. Versions from the Germanand 

 ftaX Tnd S ^nisKv h C(>m P° 8itiona . in the Danish, 

 languages ; not, however, extending to any of the" orien- 

 tal toogues. About this period of his life he contributed 

 articles to the "Edinburgh R.\it„/- ui.e-.nnoct.-d with 



bearings was the review of «M kfoTsHaTmonTof Lan- 

 guage." One of the most generally esteemed of his 

 poems, entitled " Helen " in seven cantos w™ «£„*£ 

 (with «Vala" and "Brynhalda") in 1815, 'and ^second 











appeared m 1838. la 1842 



come Dean..; two volumes, a 







bodily decay. He wa°s ordained in orTbout 181?™^ 



his professtonal duties lay (till his latter years) in a 

 rara^ village, and his pen was not much devoted to 



theological laboura ; though a sample of his long reli- 

 gious and pastoral cares was given to the public in a 



small number of printed sermons. 



™?o le Jl e<W: • : and madeta 



gun subservient to the study of ornithology as well »* 

 fcrf page* f J»» orn.t 



«**■§■) were pursued 



Tho «Botankal Magazine and Kegister," received from 



of genus and s 



riter of th I 



wer, from tliw ^ 



MANAGEMENT OF PEAR TREES. 



m Pear-trees grafted on the Q u in« 

 but the Pear and the Quince; the 



ter solely for garden to 



i Pear stock. They 



ursery, the subsoil of w 



but leaving the hard clayey subsoil below 

 -"touched. litche?mytoe« 



turned yellow. My'L^thou™ 



• ". . . 



trees healthy; the site is g , 

 so;. fourth thought, what occasion fc th 

 fibreul e :^nd t 8o t \ P b1jan?e J a WOt "' *""* **^« 

 effects, and "A ConstantR^ader^mL??' , : 

 any day the Eastern Counties rail will 1 J^?" 

 to Harlow or Sawbridgewnrth o„„u **!?>' nm 



ir^oota pruned ^ ?*" V^ey't^J 



flavour when^^V^^.^j'jW 

 hTflavou^of th^ 



Thompson ever ate a Quince-flavoured PearVj, " 

 ScrS well i ^T ^ M »* P^'iS 



4^« ; t£^«o!r a oRhf M u a the p «* 



udded upon it ? Does the Greengage ever ST l! 



esent goes, improved by being worked on th 



: • 



Rowing freely on the Quince in most soils, wi tnctt 

 being double worked, bearing large fruit of the higbot 



gthem. No. 3 : Of this I ate my best specimens 



«m plants on the Quince. Specimen* 

 '-yta plants on the Pear stock, kept only till the end of 



No. 5. This Pear seldom ripens well from trees oa 

 le Pear stock ; on the Quince the fruit are larger.. 

 lore handsome, of perfect flavour, and they inwruilj 



No. 6. On the Pear stock here (it must be borne in 





to£ 



whieh tavSSSJ r^anT- very highly 

 ( th,'subso7san e d S , this sort' always cantor*. . jj 

 st d °LareJ U Xn n mft°h d e f p U ear ; koS; o» * 

 e it grows freelv, and bears most abuM* 2 V' 

 fine and clear, and of high flavour. 



dl the Pears 1 know, is BW"V 



> dozen good cleat f™^ n »°* JfJJ ! "p rf 



that I have a young plantation of tn» k 



;„„„ «f itnn L s which I hope to oak* ' 



