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Section 6. Acton Scott, Grosse Mignonne, Bar- 

 rington. 



Section 8. Bellegarde, George the Fourth, Bar- 

 rington. 



Section 10. Pourpre Hative. 



Nectarines admit of a similar classification. The 

 best varieties are the Elruge and Violette Hative ; 

 having reniform glands and small flowers, these are 

 included in section 12. 



Pruning and General Management of the Pear- 

 Tree, • 



The wild pear-tree {Pyrus communis), from w^hich 

 the numerous cultivated varieties have originated, has 

 a wide indigenous range, extending over a great part 

 of Europe and Asia, wdthin the limits of temperate re- 

 gionso It is to be met with in certain localities in the 

 southern parts of Britain. The old varieties of pears 

 are, however, getting rapidly out of cultivation, and 

 giving place to others of recent origin, superior in 

 quality, and much better adapted for this climate than 

 the old kinds appear ever to have been. Few of the 

 latter could be successfully cultivated without the 

 aid of walls ; whereas most of the new varieties pro- 

 duce abundance of excellent fruit on standards or 

 dwarfs in the open ground. Even in France the old 

 varieties are now decaying, although the climate is 

 there most congenial to them. 



The pear is chiefly propagated by grafting or bud- 

 ding on the wild pear stock, or on stocks raised from 

 the seeds of cultivated pears, called free stocks ; the 

 former are however to be preferred. It is also grafted 

 on the quince, which is most proper for dwarf trees, 

 or for moist soil, and has also the eflfect of bringing 

 the trees earlier into a bearing state. It may be also 

 grown upon the medlar, and the white thorn [CratcB' 

 ffus 0:cyacantha]y but on these the disparity of growth 



