in Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Part of Cornwall. 545 



6 ft. to 8 ft. long. There are a great many other greenhouse 

 and hothouse plants, including Daubenton/a Trlpetid?ia, heaths, 

 pelargoniums (of which Mr. Pontey has four new sorts, for 

 which he asks from a guinea and a half to three guineas each), 

 Cacti, bulbs, and Orchideae, Mr. Pontey having lately re- 

 ceived large collections of these from South America and the 

 Cape. In a word, we found nothing wanting that is to be 

 expected in a complete nursery. The grounds are exceedingly 

 we.ll laid out, and remind us of the Edinburgh nurseries, as do 

 those of Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, and Messrs. Veitch, of 

 Exeter; and, like them,, they are kept in excellent order. The 

 houses are all heated by Corbet's open gutters, which Mr. Pon- 

 tey, as well as Mr. Pince, and all other nurserymen and gar- 

 deners that we have seen who have tried it, agree in most 

 strongly recommending. 



In Mr. Pontey's town nursery there is a pear orchard, con- 

 sisting of an extensive collection of trees grafted on quince 

 stocks, and trained pyramidally. Mr. Pontey informs us that 

 he found only about a dozen kinds of pears that would grow 

 well on quinces when grafted direct on that stock, but that he 

 accomplished his object by first grafting a sort that took freely, 

 and then grafting the plant so produced with any other sort that 

 would not grow on the quince. In this way, by great labour 

 during a number of years, he has got most of the following kinds 

 to grow vigorously and bear abundantly: — 



List of Pears on Quince Stocks grown in the pyramidal Form, 4-hft. apart, and 

 now (1842) 1ft. high, in Mr. Pontey's Plymouth Nursery. 



Ambrosia 

 Ananas d'E'te 



d'Hiver 

 Belle de Jersey 

 Belmont 

 Bequene musque 

 Bergamot, Autumn 



York 



Summer 



Wormsley 



Hollande 



Royal 



Gansell's 

 Boyle Farm Wilding 

 Buchanan's new or Spring Beurre 

 Bergamotte Cadette 

 Beurre de Ranz 



Easter 



Brown 



d'Amalis 



de Capiaumont 



Diel 



D'Argenson 



3d Ser. — 1842. XI. 



Du Roi 



D'Aremberg 



Romain 



Spence 

 Bezi d'Heri 



de la Motte 



Vaet 

 Bishop's Thumb 

 Bon Chretien Musque d'Automne 



Winter 



d'Espagne 



Fondant 



Summer 

 Caillot Rosat 

 Crassane, Winter 



Knight's 



Althorp 

 Cadillac 

 Colmar d'Auch 



Passe 

 Citron des Carmes panache 

 Chaumontel 



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