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hardy to bear and ripen their frnit, even in unfavourable should be from 

 seasons and situations, withoutthe protection of a wall ; be- hardy Tarietie*, 

 cause in many experiments 1 have made with the view of 

 ascertaining the comparative influence of the male and fe- 

 male parents on their offspring-, 1 have observed in fruits, 

 with few exceptions, a strong prevalence of the constitution 

 and habits of the female parent ; and consistently with this 

 position the new pear I have described grew very freely in 

 an unfavourable season, and in a climate in which the St. 

 Germain pear, when its blossoms do not perish in the 

 spring, will not grow at all, withoutthe protection, and re- 

 flected heat, of a wall. I would therefore recommend 

 every person, who is disposed to engage in the same pur- 

 suit, to employ the pollen only of such pears as the St. Ger- 

 main, the d'Auche,the virgoleuse, thebezi, the chaumontel, 

 the col mar, or bergamotte de pasques, and the seeds of the 

 more hardy autumnal and winter kinds. 



I would also recommend the trees from which the seeds and these 

 are to be taken, to be trained to a west wall in the warmer ^'■^'n^'J ^oa 

 parts of England, and to a south wall in the colder, so that ^^^\\^ 

 the fruit may attain a perfect, though late, maturity. 

 Every necessary precaution must of course be taken to pre- 

 vent the introduction of the pollen of any other variety, 

 than that from which it is wished to propagate, into the pre- 

 pared blossoms. 



I shall take this opportunity of pointing out to the Hor- A new plum, 

 ticultural Society the merits of a new variety of plum, (Coe's 

 golden drop) as a fruit for the dessert during winter, 

 with which the public are not sufficiently well acquainted. 

 Havmg suspended by their stalks, in a dry room, some fruit 

 of this variety which had ripened on a west wall, in Octo- 

 ber, in the year 1808, it remained perfectly ?ound till the 

 middle of December, when it was thought by my guests 

 and myself, to be not at all inferior, either in richness or 

 flavour, to the green gage, or drap d'or plum. I am in- 

 formed by Mr. Whidey of Old Brompton, from whom I 

 received it, that it bears well on standard trees. 



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