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an indication oi the sorts of pears which succeed at 

 Jedburgh : — 



' And now for some account of your pears ; I pro- 

 cured a maiden plant of BeurrS d'Amanlis, which, in 

 1875, growing in the midst of my seedling fir beds, had ' 

 reached the height of eight feet. This bush, seven and 

 a half feet in diameter, produced 820 pears, which 

 weighed ten stone seven pounds ; very fine fruit. 



' You published some years since a note specifying 

 the success of Beurre Hardy pear at Kelso; a year 

 before the specimens were sent to you, I grafted a plant, 

 filling a portion of a low wall, only seven feet high by 

 sixteen feet in length ; in 1875 my grafts of the Beurre 

 Hardy produced 500 large pears, weighing eight stone. 

 From Conseiller de la Oour I have had crops of most 

 delicious fruit. It is really a grand pear.' 



Canker. — In a lecture delivered at Birmingham by 

 Mr. Edmund Tonis, he proposes the following ingre- 

 dients as an effective application for the cure of this 

 disease : 



in the proportion of a quarter of a pound to the square 

 yard applied in the autumn and spring. To my know- 

 ledge this dressing has had an extraordinary effect in 

 some cases, and has restored diseased trees to good health. 



