20 THE MINIATUBE FRUIT aAEDEN 



ORNAMENTAL PYRAMIDAL PEAR TREES 

 ON QUINCE STOCKS 



Thebe are some very few varieties of pears the trees 

 of which may be made highly ornamental even on a 

 well-dressed lawn, as they grow freely and form natu- 

 rally beautiful cypress-like trees; at the same time 

 their fruit is of first-rate quality. Such are Summer 

 BeurrS d'Aremberg, Baronue de Mello, Pondante d'Au- 

 tomne, White Doyenne, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Passe 

 Colmar, Z6phirin GrSgoire, Olivier de Serres, Souvenir 

 du Congrds, DeHces d'Hardenpont, Doyenne du Comice, 

 Bergamotte d'Esperen, Marie Louise, Conseiller de la 

 Cour, Fertility, Durondeau, Emile d'Heyst, Marie 

 Benoist. • 



PEAR TREES AS BUSHES ON THE QUINCE 

 STOCK 



TfflS mode of cultivating pear trees has struck me as 

 being eligible, from having observed that the fruit' of 

 some of the large heavy varieties, such as Beurre 

 Diel and Beurre d'Amanlis, is very liable to be blovsm 

 off pyramids by even moderate autumnal gales. The 

 trees also of these and several other fine sorts of pears 

 are difficult to train in the pyramidal form ; they are 



