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PIGTOniAL FBAGTIGAL FRUIT GROWING. 



that fruit will be every whit as 

 beneficial as the Apples, perhaps 

 even more so. There is nothlDg 

 on earth better calculated to 

 keep the system sweet and pure 

 and healthy. Personally I would 

 1 ather see a Pear dealer than a 

 ]iill manufacturer become a niil- 

 ,' iiijnaire. Forms of tree and cul- 

 ture have had attention; let us 

 now give a little consideration 

 to varieties. Naturally there 

 are far too man)'. Although the 

 happ3' and interested owner of a 

 collection of fifty sorts, I rarely 

 go into a garden where Pears are well done without seeing some variety 

 which I do'not possess, and feel envious accordingly. Here, to begin with, 

 are the fiftv : — 



PEAR DOYENNE BOUSSOCH. 



Seckle. 



Beurre d'Amanlis. 



,, Clairgeau. 



,, Hardy. 



„ Superlin. 



,, Kance. 



,, d'Aremberg. 



,, Capiaumont. 



,, del'Assomption. 



,, d'Anjou. 



,, iSterckmans. 



„ Diel. 



., Giffard. 

 Triomphe de Jodoigne. 

 Souvenir du C'ongres. 

 Brockwortli Park. 

 Clapp's Favourite. 



Fifty Good Pears. 



Catillac. 

 Jersey Gratioli. 

 OUivier de Serres. 

 Winter Nelis. 

 Berganiotte Esperen. 

 Citron des Carmes. 

 'Thompson's. 

 Marie Louise d'Uccle. 

 Doyenne du Cornice. 



,, Bonssoch. 



Marguerite Marrillat. 

 FertJility. 

 Nouvelle Fulvie. 

 IjOuise Bonne of Jersey. 

 Josephine de JIalines. 

 Durondeau. 

 IS'edale's St. Germaius. 



Marie Benoist. 



Zephirin Gregoire. 



IMagnate. 



Jargonelle. 



Easter Beurre. 



Duchesse d'Angouleme. 



Madame Treyve. 



Chaumontel. 



Marechal (Conseiller) de 



la Cour. 

 General 'i'odleben. 

 Fondante d'Autoinne. 

 Emile d'Heyst. 

 Marie Louise. 

 Williams's Bon Chretien. 

 Glou Mor^eau. 

 Conference. 



If we add to the above 

 the following "varieties, we 

 have the material for form- 

 ing several splendid col- 

 lections : — 



rJanseVs Bergamot. 



"\'an Mons' Leon 

 Leclercri. 



Hacon's Incompar- 

 able. 



Pitmnston Duchess. 



Passe Col mar. 



Knight's Monarch. 



Nee Plus Meuris. 



Princess. 



FIG. 39.- PEAR DURONDEAU. 



