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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[DECEMBER 3, 18¢4, 
said about Chiswick, „and n determination of the ong The merit which is more especially claimed for | 
sort, rivalled it in fertility ; these are both late summer 
ain it as a school x p sca eh ad ageres Moris is, that it withstands frost and | Pears, j Juicy and a agreeable, sometimes rich and good, 
s very clearly Miphiadd: This led t p better than any other variety, and, moreover, gt ipi ng e bee! M ck 
appointment of a Committee, whic ery rf dy bers 85, couple t at most agreeable 
examined the whole subject, and laid before the Hien nee E is held to be invaluable for winter Hs more mimus flav Set pie v to "iis ed vá the race—of 
: ] | especially to amate mar ane cottagers. Like "" the old Brown Beu pecimens of this ve 
fing ex s i t fiian iae mar quede, we learn that i tendency to sport, but | old Pear, grown on a "trellis covered with glass light 
u^ i Se is SAYS s ing in all cases a valuable till the mi pag of June, were large nd perfect]; 
Peres N uem n ELVED, d table. That iti is. a tender wo congeners, the Beurró Rouge 
itis( 0. 2 that examinations of gardeners in | we igno a bonr Mein but of its hardiness we have no | Beurré de “Camas T: o; 
od personal knowledge. 
| OUR SUMMER AND AUTUMN ios IN 1864. 
S far as my aoe Gan ae gone never 
| had a more favourable 01 
pes uin is of 1864. d 
orts that have attracted my. attention n thei 
| M [iatis or excellence of thei 
so I Tara divide pun 
he committ VOU) 
0 pr mosting : igno 
The inferene 
at least the acting 
l however m a 
ha rdier or ues £ ruit 
having a dee ch 
The CA a Pear now but little kn 
p from the 
unequ: 
or those that tg Oy 
ba ber, or mds autumn ; those that ri 
Se eptember, October, aa la te autumn ; 
hara , ripened the month of November— 
ising that beri) ali have been gathered from | 
r low bushes es grafted on the Quince 
ry, if 
tige, and so fine an opportunity, the 
national “Horticultural gasdon suffered 
dwindle in nto a mere aristocra 
koe pyramids o 
stock ei! 
> 
and ros 
large size, 
and in a deep sand highly pare ong, the site about 
20 miles to the north- east of Lon 
the om ee A 
I 
y cheek w 
ina sunny place, 
and 
Hun the 
e notwithstanding the. intrested |f , the 
to, and here 
ta 
opposition thereto, 
adv 
ae. M fruit is 
8 
la arge, its 
rly covered with russet (it i is 
gy he E» ear trees bore a most 
and when eaten from ae 
remarkable that all fruite, from t 
were very n 
man Engli ish ga rafted on the Quine ce «^ ie 
private, will in due time fall. 
pu body would 
s ans of c rrying 
es e Government mig 
TRA hand ; or in x [o 
icultu re, 
on the Pear stock, or dou 
d perhaps n 
1 I 
graft 
caesiraodl 
The 
he pear 
Mn as ie 
which exist in deii | E very liable 0 eanket-in a pine. soil 
hien overbearing; ; it is therefore more | 
row pe 
or less ru issety, are anne - helm of favoni 
ve its flesh meltin d beurréish, with a peculiar 
who sends his “ The 
Stock ; on the edi it is short-lived ; veh double | Garden,’ P odi this autumn some eed x “al this Pear 
grafted it forms a healthy tree, and is worthy of me | Properly named ; his man was accosted by one of the 
WE print elsewhere (p. D. 2 uet em a | ration. Closely following the last wry Ag as | London fruiterers, who was making his purchases in 
rom some fam fnew | Beurré Giffard, decidedly one of our best very dr the market, as to the quality and mtm of the Pears, 
dorus , , wit a grateful Noyau-ish a which he could not make out. On be told the proper 
ONS, which is not DAR importance, | The Pears of our boyhood, th Green Mere and Fran Remora Do oyen nné Boussoc och, he | plied indignantly, 
ae ed and Yellow Chisel. un knows the d 
and which deserves to be mu 
y berks arity indeed, | of Chisel, unl 
are Ganse!’ s Pears,” e as idees deli xe he 
ioe t Floris propon dee eL | mongers chiselled the boys with in old age gl 
resolves itself into “te — Who i is to win?| large crops this season, and the form ss quite € olmar d'Eté e beauty of the tre 
appears to us to be very much one of private juicy and agreeable. | What large standard d eankered | a ripened my! in September, an 
seenernent dec. SDN e nd their gar-| °°) Mee giroen, caring | though not rich, the fruit were ne cy x Ribes 
deners, for so far as the mere awarding of the | crust, rs of ^ it; th loitosdio pado oa a lar 7 2 eed n i ARE, 
it aterial | ep a aet e th Ls y yellowed by ripe- | of the true pyriform dijs ad a most agreea 
1 not delicious ? I - "s 
made to A., hink so, and I a d to think so this seas 
Practico has tak I suppose the boy and the old man differ in their 
her side ; — M orI ald not think so now. Ah! lack-a-day 
wera e^ are g other July I et Pears were Pros 
Giffard, but n 
to the nau whether dá awar hes 
r to d 
h 
DUM aroma, and i is quite worthy of a Pac in in 
Pear garden. one of the re 
our autumn "Pears, ripened on the trees in Sept 
and was not rai z melting and rich as onal, bui 
the trees with their neat pyramidal growth, and 
1 1 
not Gouda, = like 
is | and D ede B i 
$ e then | 
, | object S. Urtetik very very early this season, and 
only just Loiret the preceding; it was very rich and 
good. early autumn Pear could be more melting, 
y n ve 
We would not, how vidt convey the impression br St odo) wee: Gane create was surprise that juicy, ad ioh than Jalousie de pad pen od 
that this i is an unim mportant question, or altogether tnh by Xheti;l ron |a warm September. day; little a bushes of this 
a vate one; for as our correspondent) oy, elt favorito Pear, the a P4 
alleges, the mployers of gardeners are kept dpt us fine. There is one peculiarity this | of fertility. 
the um - iere erha ia "d mici | Me deserving of notice; unlike many of von ears, it Gratioli of Jersey, one of our — 
even from takin, much interes ey | is always excellent from wall trees, even o Pears, ripened the end of September, an 
otherwise would do, in horticultural exhibitions. exposure. It does not succeed well on the Qao: was as usual Mint rich and good, but of very short 
ate of things is ifestly detrimental least it is short-lived on most soils, Double le grafted on | duration. One o! Pears, if not 
culture, and renders the question one of 8 uee Bonne, or, as th call it in that 
interest and lication. And it on for in stance, it forms a nice ud prolific tree in the | enlightened palatial district Covent Garden, “ Bon 
: open borders of the en Bine di is another pecu- " was more than usually beautiful and good. It 
the ground that a different system would to a i 
grea win the sympathies of the p larity about this sort: as a standard in the south, | is remarkable that the very large and beautiful speci- 
oh és OF sy sai danin ning, and no zit. unless in the valley of the Thames, it is apt to LM eit] Memmi Dd ere not tag 
dibrec! eta. that oe not AS and be me unhealthy, while in some ork- in fla ur to those uere s ttle Ba ; 
ep shire it forms a prolific tree. Bon oropked ' Bonne, with a patch of russet in the 
dent to rest his int. Indeed we Chrétien William,” London ; hollow part, is a delicious 
uch that the latter is by no mea AUS his | ot ology, vas i ly abundant the pes: season, “ Marias ” as pe a ongera call them, h seldom 
object, but rather that gardeners EE Mu ectly | — gin: of Wer ve T ai gee speci- | been so abundant as this season; large y speci- 
benefited by the greater impu s he mens RS wall t and exce ellent ; mens of this oa — sort from al pis 
believes, would be given to oralari 7 prit ‘the smaller frait potenje standards with i3 specks a ncy—they were something like a beautiful 
if the plan he proposes were adopted. 188 
The er ject i : Meum n ve 5 fairly opened b E ed d pend ing in seasoa just after the | but sual’ fruit Pa patron or osm when 
eceding, vii Panache for its size and beauty, and | patched with a little russet, and a little cracked, were 
oo t, and we shall be glad. t Eres not rich, was melting, juicy, and agreeable. delicious. The m petiot method of. growing this 
whether the feeling to which ve is really This so ucc baddg-erall EL tho north, and bears abon- | Pear is on'pyramids or bushes in the open air, double 
80 pre e supposes, t rient ind. ubault, a very pretty | grafted, but this y in climates with sufficient 
ting if proved ean its removal, so far as it m [ Pa, not Md - about the middle of ripening power. 
may inj to the interests of | Se; r; this sort is remarkable for its bea ie Louise rong diet pe from pira near 
gardene poe gardenin a Pg even on ae = ck. Ma eon is A on the Quin dp | 
w Pear from Tro ripe 
& MEIN, of Kelso, have sent us and is a very exosilent, large, melting summer Pa 
OUGHT CABBAGE, a de en another new French summer 
Cabbage and the Hearting | Pear, ripen ned so quite t the end of August, and as, 
, raised by Mr. Metrics, om SS ead like the preceding, it is free growing and MÀ it is 
The sam sample ted | likely to prove acceptable as an early Pear. Rokeby, |t 
a sort raised M. Biv in Belgium, is one of the 
boiled | most M ears known, $e small bushes, not more 
oes, (ets inches high, were loaded with frui 
e have them resting on the ground; 
t, some o! 
and Tyson, an American 
ardy; i put. iet Callow coat is a go 
id not deed for it is a rich, ogee ercint 
The Seckle, as usual, was rich and delici 
should be double-grafted on we g iis fno 
the Quince stock and cultivated as a 
Yat, a very old Dutch Pear, a reed E omni g hardy sort, 
was very rich and good, but like the Gratioli it passed 
f | too soon. 
With respect to my third series it must be stated 
Maece Bs F 
Eh 0 M S 
