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pedient is perhaps less regarded in this country than 

 it ought to be. It is true we use the quince stock 

 for checking the luxuriant growth of some of our 

 pears ; but it is not improbable that stocks raised 

 from the seeds of the petit muscat would answer 

 quite as well for the purpose. 



Many of the best pears are difficult to get up from 

 a low graft or bud ; and it is to be observed, that 

 pears worked standard high, always come into bear- 

 ing sooner than such as are from dwarfs. 



To the continent we are beholden for perhaps all 

 our best sorts of pears, and which originated there 

 either by accident or design. All the French Bezis 

 are wildings ; as Bezi Chaumontelle, the wilding of 

 that place. So also were the Cresan, Colmar, &c. 

 But the French and Belgians have also raised many 

 new varieties from seed. Few such attempts were 

 made in England till within these last thirty years. 

 While in possession of the Jargonelle, the Autumn 

 Bergamot, the two Beurree, Chaumontelle, and Col- 

 mar, the British gardener thought these could not 

 be surpassed, and therefore sought no others. But 

 an impulse has been given to this branch of the 

 art, as before observed, by Mr. President Knight, 

 Mr. Williams of Pitmaston, and by the late Mr. Brad- 

 dick of Bury Hill. Several new and excellent pears 

 have been lately originated by the scientific exertions 

 of these gentlemen, and by importations from France, 

 of which some account will be given in the following 

 pages. 



