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fully ripe, and placed in a fruit-room to finish — not on a 

 vinery or greenhouse shelf, as is frequently done. Clapp's 

 Favourite cannot be termed first-class in flavour, but it is useful 

 for its earliness, large size, splendid appearance, and free-bearing ; 

 August. Directeur Hardy is 

 a new variety that is said to 

 be of superior merit and a 

 great bearer of large fruit ; 

 November. Doyenne du 

 Comice is probably the finest 

 Pear in cultivation, surpassing 

 the well-known Marie Louise, 

 and may be strongly recom- 

 mended as a cordon or trained 

 tree against a wall, pro- 

 ducing heavy crops of large, 

 handsome fruit ; November. 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme is only 

 valuable for exhibition pur- 

 poses ; the fruit is very large, 

 and freely produced, but de- 

 cidedly second-rate in flavour ; 

 November. Durondeau is a 

 very handsome Pear, of good 

 size, delicious flavour, and a 

 great cropper ; October. Glou 

 Morceau is a valuable variety, 

 and should be left on the 

 tree until beginning to fall ; 

 it will then afford a supply 

 of fruit of excellent quality 

 about Christmas and the New 

 Year. Le Lectier is a new 

 variety, promising to be a 

 great acquisition ; small cordon- 

 trees have borne large fruit, 

 of fine flavour, ready for 



use in February. Louise Bonne de Jersey is a well-known and 

 reliable variety, and though it bears profusely as a cordon, we 

 consider it best flavoured from bush or standard trees ; October. 

 Marie Louise is another universal favourite, succeeding well as a 

 cordon; November. ]Marie Benoist is a large, fine-flavoured 

 variety, fruiting abundantly: December. Magnate, a large, hand- 

 some variety, a good grower and bearer ; October. ^Marguerite 

 Marrillat, a new, very large, handsome variety, of delicious flavour ; 

 September. Nouvelle Fulvie is large, but not handsome, of 

 good flavour, and a heavy cropper ; January and February. Pit- 

 maston Duchess, of enormous size on cordon-trees, fine golden 



Fig. 664.— Pear Conferexce. 



