January 23, 1858.] 
HE 
GARDENERS’ eee 
53 
‘An experienced person “knows at once when 
ay ripening i nt is comp le te. . This ap the varieties | 
which us gust and Sep- 
tem ber have perfected their iait 10 aoe aging — 
jn former years. Among recer nt varieties the Poi 
Péche W’Esperen | has more erl peany our r atten- 
xperi 
seedlings from 15, 20, 25, 
not by a leap, as has 
debates concerning 
to “4 ya old. 
bee 
e pa articular. object. It is not inter est which 
d M Grég ire in } tony 
+ 
tion as an early Pear 
tree, i its, fine aa and ite great productivene 
ae 
5 
bec ‘oom © acquainted with hs 
of the seedlings left by 
oe. 
on 
k. On count 
ts great apa it will not t bear pe ao of 
and altho 
Sap ] _ It requires to be pa = as 
5 Pkaif standard int 
On} 
worked on the Pear an: ig ranei 
sub- | G 
Ae pee of enriching y aere „with superior 
ante 
“than Bsa of injury gns 
. Sur 
e taken 
the causes w 
rely Mr. ak gl s statemen’ 
as conclusive, thi 
08 th 
ts 
k they give 
too litt 
| [compat of “spot” ” in their P ants. Some thin! 
| m 
rmitted us to take buds from his | 
that 
a piii which we Ne ius A erta! 
to bring to a satisfactory candlasion. The seine ho 
have been already introduced cultiv: —Barbe 
Nelis, an Koreno early fruit ; Lentien, an excellent | 
e fruit of w 
October v. it 
nd of autumn and is -A productive o 
Poa 
After agers sent us the fruits to taste for | shea think to. cause a 
S perm my 
| had a 
which we hope | allow much mois 
to be at rest, 
nd the light (which seems 
t this tim ne z year ee I 
mishap. I have 
e when 
with Be bherinomitet under (sa y) 68 
to b 
the Quince ESER, like the enr Delfosse ; Lois 
régoire, pam o after his other ; _ Zepheri rin Lo ouis, 
after his eldes TI d 
hat of fight 
xs ature falls us that the sun 1s brighter 
The last 
Raat 
Berga 
e Pear stock ; ; they produce p 
Agree 
and then it is = plants 
As I said bei 
produe uctive tree. he same size as ay 
Anci 
ga 
ave 
Bs is re t 
e Grise Atat not exactly like itin form. It 
E in the last fortnight of Septem age is one of 
ated by a 
mber 
those design urs as delicious, on account of | 
ieti et littl n 
hilippe NR in Decem The Ro 
usselet | 
Va n der Veken, of Grégoire, i is also one of them 
It 
part of a spin Pant of the Zepherin 
) experienc ie. this — 
sor ‘of eitil night an 
ee worked on the Pear sto 
produced. 
a 
oire, Eugène Gérard, Commissaire Del- 
sees to May, take the first rank among the best late 
varietie 
i ke S M. Grégoire requires a seedling Pear tree to 
This y ear inese 
s 
melting o ripen prematurely. There „are, we 
Hii 
buted : ti fit i is that the fruit has 
col: bee A oi of fine habit of growth, healthy, | 
unquestio bly hardy, and “terti ile; the fruit sufficiently 
largo, bat shave all the flesh and flavour of the highest 
xcel ellen 
rR 
pining ‘copious saison T the late a tere 4 
bee ome 80 large i in this s as in $ alaan, = 
Agläe Grég Gé 
motte, and pth Nelis, of which the period of ripening | mo 
admitted constantly winter 
ase, but 
annoyance gi 
tee J. Phillpotts, Porthywidden, 
wall. 
correspondents who attribute ine “chove-named 
Kiia to low pte chip with a mo 
feel convinced mistak use for eft 
who writes from 
ri ndrobium Farmeri, after steaming the ho 
ening, s 
showed 
morning ; ; the interior of both was decay ed, a 
egei weed 
‘or e md po 
n Castle, mentions thes his 
use in the 
wi 
I 
Varn babi 
two large spots on pa 
Howev yer, 
+} 
D 
any 
bee 
hang too long on the tree instead of tein ng jea pam 
successively as it became fit; the second is that after 
ut 
E 
1 
inted | with the dry fibrous texture. of the 
flavour and keep so and. 
On the whole, ok summer of 1857 has not been so 
the hardy varieties of Pears as are ie 
cloudy, and w ed se riods alternat 
higher, the size | 
gathering the fruit Bo been put ina 
and insufficiently ve — especially . night. _Owing | summers in which it, 
to the heat and Aeree e fruits wer 
by the t ne of the n aches which 
has in general been Jess than in other years. _ This 
| be conv 
ad ther 
| proba the > gait might not have been 
| Suppositi 
in 
other years, 
s of a new y variet 
ew n 
oceurr h 
ils th Tom the 16th ka the 25th have kept well, 
ose gat the red 10 days | Gea ood gl later 
the real m rf foi 
Pear Rott the re of the seedling tree only, withou 
kewise examining the produce of trees earns 
It pores from this we opine, that if at t 
fi the orig’ ied 
of autumn the fru oe crease in size upon ihe tree it is 
eir flavour, and sound Keeping 
t it it haa be en thus in our gardens and 
This observation is applicable | n 
mre Aap umn fruits, but also to those which ripen 
ene 
This yea, as in the Ss. s we rae ai twice 
fruits of the Passe Colmar and Beurr that 
2 a the 
Js fruit 
eae Uh aioe Intake anien in 
ered 13 days eis z ear in 
general to aneta Some fr a ier poene M 
os Lrg Ft of October, for the PEE A are no 
over, and were sessed 
all 
Lact 
we have state 
es r 
| had ad not obse: Jin 
| to fillers that 
the ey therefore came to the 
ased on such evidence as hace: Trey 
people 
of conclusions 
y co 
it had ton working its 
conclusion that a a flash of 
On a former d that i 
at jolt ie years "betes the real merits of a new vay 
we Oe = can be compita = Henig ee Thi 
fi ost v: For me 
o0 long for ose "dat & 
ze the evil. 
I am aware that the spotting in Orchids 
rally first shows itself after a low tem pereema n m 
mpted to show i, I co 
are as Thave previously a atte 
jet jhe period may abaia Te reduc 
the utm from the time of their at bearing, 
orarie Ti r. that no time is lost in the nursery. 
In a st n, cary oe the beauty of the fruit is 
but h this fine fruit binih tained from 
h 
ease thro 
e growing seaso 
oe plier 
ugh insuffi a pin havin 
fey a 
many \idtatces peer’ 
Tight, xing t to the nioe ee 
r from My cams * E a 
Bane notions can be ped 
in a state a ne in Fant el ‘whilst pest their fruit, | 
and whe en ri By ga therin ring the fruit neces- 
cturing 
diat tricts ais are many peri ariari sot “Orchids 
plants ; 
often containi 
cleus of aig foe that 
e Quine k planted in eep light soil, 
which were gathered Re mat of che keora 
n the tree ar = kee ectly w well. ‘Those 
0 zeo 
aaa Those gath 
and rot. - The fruit of the Comte a as 
Flandres gathered on the 16th of September hav: 
omy well Spgs 
it ata proper time, the amateur Bre grower can al 
gre 
ag” 
form their opinion, grounded on facts. J. de Jonghe, 
Brussels. 
me Correspondenec. 
Orchid 
in October are all decayed. 
Fruits of this variet 
Sastre on the 15th and 16th o abil 
eptember w 
ase. a. everal 
subject, but 
Dies 
this 
of so conflicting a band that it reqnires more than 
hen 
share of penetration to arrive at a satisfac- 
tory Nog per in the mat ter. au 
letters hav: ss | he 
their contents tae been } 
eneral 
the dst Mins as I have at os 
have met wit 
w T 
Prana ser a twice a 
he effects are palpably | 
have had every opportuni 
eviden 
This, I think, will be | wi 
2 dificult to ee as that se | question e Potato 
disease, and I „hope that Ori chi dg in general will 
re 
gro 
which have hig subjected | 
d ar this t 
on the point, “for by so git a 
mass of evidence might be brought „together which 
M 
y. 
opinion, founded on Close observation, | corroborates a 
where he 
says :— high state of sa is what I con 
ve Orc ierg 
ra for oie NE 
on Rendell’s 
culty 
in his 
pera an n 
yet he has grown a valuable collection for 12 years 
fact Ih t in th a 
of keeping up 
rature, mioa having 
known; 
ao 
ie h 
the ET 
tank system, ae which the diffi- — 
even moderate Rag 
moisture, 
àse there is more moisture ai faen. 
I 
this way. in 
A too 
sider one cause of spot.” In here 
|I grow a mi and 
ma shone, I endeavour to modify the tempersture 
; I keep the night heat about 60°. Under 
mall ] house nre wh 
als ss 
which 
e gives abundance of air all t 
He 
o goe ing season, and keeps the page near 
as possible; these and man 
I have seen all tend to pe that roe 
n gro 
similar instances 
meta my hat th 
to be fruited sev 
ee years old. Jes wore 
ego grown 
stocks, under different. 
and 
ka 
wing, a 
air rte kinds which latitud 
n | In Brazil I believe the th nae occasionally | a 
very low— much lower than ti the temperate at Agee 
houses—an 
exactly 
ean is that too mach nursing js one cause of re Ae 
bu 
spr el aat cause 
era that Orchid growers ers generally 
on is the subject. if ' they ` will 
— 
or ci 
2 dead 
in I have made to order. 
e | subject for us, and probabl may, to some att at 
£ dwarf pyra 
pleasing to an amateur t mes 
growth of the greater part of 
ees 
ing | least, 
yw 
t, ascertain sk the ras cause is. 
ye E. Wi nch He etone Cheshire. [Weho hold to 
the paean given at p. 852 of o ur last yi 
volume. | cu! 
