Гесемвев 7, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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China is a species of Lilac occurring here on the 
skirts of the woods, with somewhat minute whitish 
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called after Kamtchatka, Daphne Kamtchatica, 
mowicz. 
Among the herbs of the Amour country, no fewer 
10 species are exclusively peculiar to — 
е rest are common to China, Japan, Kam 
ч and even America, but more especially " 
indicated that it might M & shy bearer. 
these prophesies hàve too literally сате 
As to m quality of this Pear there can hard 
two opinions. The ving а i 
tiful coloured wood-cut of Lucy Grieve Pear, summed 
it up in a sentence thus, “If we cannot claim for old 
England the parentage of many of our favourite 
ears, we may at least assign to her some of the very 
best in quality, and among these must rank th 
subject of our present illustration, of which excellent 
Еа. 111.—rvcv GRIEVE PEAR, 
circumference, lengthwise, 15 inches; shorter girth, 11 inches.) 
(Weight, 14 ozs. ; 
Transbaikalia and Siberia, The и flora of the 
i pl common to European 
Trans 
Rassia, baikalia, dg 
numbers 527 varieties, J. St, Vincent 
Odessa, Sept, 14. 
THE LUCY GRIEVE PEAR. 
Tuts fine Pear, though it obtained a First-class 
Certificate < the R tural Soci 
paratively 
I thin Willow-like leaves, which 
suffice to distinguish it from nearly all other Pears, 
samples were sent to us last autumn by Mr, Grieve 
of Calford.” 
pl pied knoe herder е variety has neither 
been ree-growth or free-bearing ; 
but singularly eji 1895 has been & record year 
for this Pear. The sample beíore me аз I write, 
ughes, gardenerto Thomas C. Porteous 
asures 15 inches 
ә part, and weighs 14 oz. This fruit, and there 
re several almost as large, is * as се again as 
й figured and described on The 
for 1875, where the average weight is — ав 7 02, 
These fruits differ considerably from the type in 
other matters, 
specimen (fig. 111). Оле of the peculiar 3 is still 
persiatent from the end of the stalk, and is true to its 
Willow-like character, But the Lucy bim Pear, 
like many others, Р dun richly coloured this year 
than usual. Howe 
а 
а deep lemon-yellow, though it is thinly an 
places thickly marked with ru 
patch near the eye and the stalk, The flesh is also 
moderately fi e grained, tender, and melting, 
winter ae luscious flavour, and a slight 
and agreeable dash of acidity such as is "EEN 
met with in the ims Morceau. ce this P.ar 
has suben in size, it becomes more is аф fine 
old Pear at at and possibly may have been raised 
from it. Bes the odour and the flavour of this Pear 
are more penetrati 
pathetically written by the father of its raiser, Mr, 
Peter Grieve, so recently deceased :— 
It happened very long ago 
8 long ? we scarcely seem to know 
A fair you 
oung child, in cite glee, 
Piucked with her darin ng little han 
ear — tree 
And ate the w fr uit she chos 
With all the vt —— childhood жел 
Bat marvelled in its inmost core 
And marvelied more to hear t told 
That each amall d s "lump pe bo!d 
Might yet become а 
Then thoughtfully — pondered long, 
How this thing could be a 
yina um of saith 
to ohare. 
me plant became 
With foliage bright and fair; ; 
The child, a merry little mai 
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4 t las it ripened fruit, 
They who fall well do know, 
Declare on E gland 'a fertile soil 
No richer e'er di 
And say that how that а fruit a0 choice 
Its raiser's name should bear. 
And be hereafter т always known 
As little Lucy’s Pear.“ P. G. 
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FLORISTS’ 18° FLOWERS, 
PROPAGATION oF СНЕ: CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 
Earty in the present month, and before the last 
of the plants which have borne large 
down, a beginning should be mide in the propage- 
tion of Chrysanthemums, for although the Chry- 
is short, a long period of time is 
required in cultivating the plant to perfection, 
the 
methods of culture e him to excel, 
A most important detail of culture is the propaga- 
tion of the plants. 
It may be iios for er that it is useless to 
hope for very fine blossom 
no amount of forcing at "has абар 
which is better than silat, and the gardener must 
