110 A Report upon some new seedling Pears. 



the Foxley Pear ; and I doubt whether the Monarch do not descend 

 from the Autumn Bergamot. Respecting the male parents of the 

 greater part of them, it is useless to offer any conjecture, for owing 

 to the circumstances under which experiments were made, as I have 

 detailed in a former communication, many of them are probably 

 the joint offspring of two or more male parents. 



I possess several other varieties of first rate excellence, of which 

 I hope to send in the present year samples to the Horticultural 

 Society ; and I have a great many others with which I know not 

 what to do ; they appear to be too good to be sacrificed before 

 their merits, when grown in other soils and seasons, have been in 

 some measure ascertained, and at the same time they are, com- 

 paratively with a few others, scarcely worth culture or preserving. 

 I have also a large number of seedling trees, which having exer- 

 cised my patience during more than twenty years, have not yet 

 produced a blossom. 



The soil in which the trees grow, which have afforded all the 

 samples sent to the Horticultural Society, with the exception of a 

 couple of Garnon's Pears, is very strong, and retentive, to an in- 

 jurious extent, of water in such cold and wet seasons as the three 

 last have been; and 1 therefore feel confident that many of them 

 will be found in future periods to exhibit much greater degrees of 

 excellence than they have hitherto been seen to possess. As va- 

 rieties for culture as standard trees, I am quite satisfied by the 

 evidence of experiments which I have made, that none of the 

 Belgic, or French Pears, now cultivated in England, can compete 

 with the best of them ; and whether any of the imported varieties 

 will, as wall fruit, be found to excel them, when all are given the 

 same advantages, remains I think to be proved. 



