154' On Pear Trees, and certain Exotics at Wormleybury. 



healthy, while the pears are sound and vigorous. The pear, 

 he says, is naturally less capricious than the apple, both in 

 regard to soil and situation. For this reason, he suggests, 

 that pear trees, especially those kinds whose fruit is adapted 

 for perry, should be more frequently planted than at present. 

 In every orchard he would have both apples and pears, in 

 such quantities as to admit of making the fruit into cider or 

 perry ; and as the pear crop often succeeds when the apple 

 crop fails, when cider could not be made, perry might be had. 



8. Remarkable Specimens of Posonia Papaveracea, Madras 

 Citron, and Magnolia Conspicua, in the Gardens of Worm- 

 leybury, in Hertfordshire. Communicated by Sir Abraham 

 Hume, Bart. F. R. S. H. S. &c. the Proprietor. Dated 

 March 18. 



Pceonia Papaveracea is in a house 16 feet long, 10 feet 

 wide, and 8 feet high, and is entirely filled with the plant, so 

 that its circumference may be estimated at 39 feet; and it would 

 be still larger if the tree had sufficient space. There are on 

 it at this time 630 buds. 



The Madras Citron is 21 feet in height, and 15 feet in width, 

 trained on the wall and partly on the glass roof of the con- 

 servatory. It bore last year between three and four dozen of 

 fruit, some of which weighed above five pounds. 



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Magnolia Conspicua [fig. 3 1.) is 20 feet in height, and spreads 

 20 feet on the wall, and 5 feet above it. It requires no protec- 

 tion, and produced a year or two ago above 900 flowers ; this 

 year 730 are coming out. 



