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an east wall. It is of very high quality, and will, no doubt, be one day a 

 favourite article of the dessert. In the opinion of some it is superior to 

 the Chaumontelle, — a high character." 



127. The Black Eagle Cherry. " As good a bearer as the Black Heart 

 upon an open standard, and far superior to that variety in the quality of its 

 fruit : it is not to be doubted that this will one day usurp the place of that 

 ancient variety in our gardens. It was raised by Mr. Knight, from a seed 

 of the Ambree of Duhamel, impregnated with the pollen of the May Duke ; 

 and it really combines all that is most worth praising in both those varie- 

 ties." " Ripens soon after the May Duke." 



128. The Flemish Beauty Pear ; La Belle de Flandres, Bouche nouvelle, 

 Fondante de Bois, Brilliante, Imperatrice de la France. " When we con- 

 sider that this ranks among our best pears in quality, that it bears abun- 

 dantly as a standard, and that its size and appearance are both much in its 

 favour, it is not to be doubted that it will one day become a most important 

 variety in the lists of cultivators. As yet it is but little known. It is 

 a large-sized, greenish-russet, handsome kind, ripening in October, and 

 keeping for a month or two. It has the remarkable property of improving 

 more if gathered before it is quite ripe, than if fully mature when taken from 

 the tree. In the latter case it is apt to acquire a kind of anise-scent, which 

 is not agreeable ,• in the former it becomes perfectly melting and rich, with- 

 out any such flavour." " It must be gathered while it adheres yet firmly to 

 the tree ; this is the only way to have it really in perfection. If suffered to 

 ripen fully on the tree, it is a poor variety. It decays externally before it 

 gives way at the core." 



No. XX XI I I. for July, contains 



129. The Purple Gage Plum; the Reine Claude Violette of the French, 

 and Die Violett Konigin Claudie of the Germans. Fully equal to the 

 green gage in all respects, with this advantage, that it is scarcely at all dis- 

 posed to crack. Ripe in August, and will keep till October in a dry room ; 

 a good bearer as a standard, and improves in flavour on an east or west 

 wall. 



130. The Sam Young Apple. An Irish variety, highly spoken of by Mr. 

 Robertson of Kilkenny, " than whom few are better acquainted with the 

 varieties of orchard fruit." A flat-headed tree, healthy, and an abundant 

 bearer on all sides ; fruit small, depressed, round, eye very wide and open. 

 " Still a variety neglected and almost unknown. Like a great many first- 

 rate fruits figured already in the Pomological Magazine, it is hardly to be 

 found in the nurseries ; and we shall probably hear complaints of the diffi- 

 culty of procuring it in the trade. We can only say, that no fruit has been 

 introduced into the Pomological Magazine which cannot be possessed by 

 any nurseryman in Great Britain, and which ought not to find a place in 

 every collection having a claim to' consideration ; but we say further, that 

 those persons who hold a different language, and who do not take the neces- 

 sary pains to provide their customers with these varieties, are more atten- 

 tive to their own interests than to those of the public. We have been led 

 to make these observations in consequence of letters that have reached us : 

 we trust .that it will not be necessary to repeat them." 



131. The Beurre Diel Pear. This fruit has been already figured and 

 described from a specimen grown on a wall (see Vol. IV. p. 35.), and a 

 figure is now given from a standard ; because the pears so grown " are so 

 extremely different in appearance, as to render it improbable that the iden- 

 tity of the two would be discovered without being thus pointed out." It 

 bears most freely as a standard, succeeds well upon a quince stock, and is 

 one of the most important pears in cultivation. Fruit obovate, large ; " flesh 

 inclining to yellow, melting, perfectly buttery, sweet, rich, very high flavoured 

 and excellent." 



