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On a new Variety of Pear. 



In the preceding experiments I have always chosen to 

 propagate from the seeds of such varieties as are sufficiently 

 hardy to bear and ripen their fruit, even in unfavourable 

 seasons and situations, without the protection of a wall ; be- 

 cause, in many experiments I have made with the view of 

 ascertaining the comparative influence of the male and 

 female parents on their offspring, I have observed in fruits, 

 with few exceptions, a strong prevalence of the constitution 

 and habits of the female parent ; and consistently with this 

 position, the new Pear I have described, grew very freely in 

 an unfavourable, season, and in a climate in which the St. 

 Germain Pear, when its blossoms do not perish in the spring, 

 will not grow at all, without the protection, and reflected 

 heat, of a wall. I would therefore recommend every person, 

 who is disposed to engage in the same pursuit, to employ the 

 pollen only of such Pears, as the St. Germain, the D'Auch, 

 the Virgouleuse, the Bezi de Chaumontel, the Colmar, and 

 Bergamotte de P&ques, and the seeds of the more hardy 

 autumnal and winter kinds. 



I would also recommend the trees from which the seeds 

 are to be taken, to be trained to a west wall in the warmer 

 parts of England, and to a south wall in the colder, so that 

 the fruit may attain a perfect, though late, maturity. Every 

 necessary precaution must of course be taken to prevent 

 the introduction of the pollen of any other variety, than 

 that from which it is wished to propagate, into the prepared 

 blossoms. 



I shall take this opportunity of pointing out to the Horti- 

 cultural Society the merits of a new variety of Plum, Coe's 

 Golden Drop, as a fruit for the desert during winter, with 



