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nursery. The fruit is turbinate shaped, oi rather small size, 

 but tender, sweet, and juicy, with a pleasant aroma. It is 

 ripe in October. In the same orchard is a specimen of the 

 Summer Bon Chretien, upwards of one hundred years old, 

 but there is not much fruit on it, and it is a kind which is 

 always shy and precarious in the district. The St. Catherine 

 Pear is here represented by a tree eighty or ninety years 

 old, the pears on which are small, reddish, and sweet to the 

 taste. 



In various gardens around the town are large and fine 

 pear trees, some of which are worthy of a passing notice. 

 In the garden of Mr. Brown, grocer, is an old tree of a kind 

 called " Ludd," the only one of its kind now grown, which 

 bears always a fine crop of turbinate shaped, fair eating 

 pears, though not equal to some of the more modern sorts. 

 In the Burn orchard, belonging to Mr. Ormiston, is a large 

 specimen of the Grey Warden, an old tree, but not nearly 

 equal in age to those at the Lady's Yards. 



Near the Nest Academy are two specimens of the Grey 

 Achan, of very large size and bearing great crops. These 

 are sometimes called Black Achans and sometimes Red 

 Achans ; but the truth is the colour changes with the age of 

 the fruit. It may be observed that this species forms an 

 excellent dessert pear in Scotland, where it grows plenti- 

 fully, hangs on the tree till all the leaves are off, and will 

 scarcely part from it even then, and is in season in the 

 months of November and December; but in the south of 

 England it is worthless. In the manse or parsonage garden, 

 close to the Abbey, are some grand trees, but the most not- 

 able of them all was a celebrated Plum, called Cloth of Gold, 

 which was broken by a storm some years since, and has 

 been replaced by another many degrees inferior. In a little 

 sheltered corner of a garden, where Queen Street meets 

 Canongate, is a very old Longueville, belonging to Mr Geo. 

 Hilson, manufacturer ; and in the same place is a noble 

 specimen of the French Jargonelle, a favourite pear in the 

 town, and which grows in great perfection. Having meas- 

 ured this particular tree, we found it 7 feet in girth and 6 

 feet high from the ground to the first cleft ; the tree is about 

 50 years old, in perfect health, and finely developed, and is 

 the parent of all the French Jargonelles in the town. In a 

 garden adjoining the above, between the High Street and 

 Queen Street, is a specimen o c the Green Yair, the only one 



