LXIII. Description of a Pear Tree, on which the Operation 

 of Reverse Grafting has been performed. In a Letter to 

 the Secretary. By Mr. William Balfour, Gardener to 

 the Earl Grey, at Hoivick, in Northumberland. 



Read November 4th, 1823. 



Sir, 



I have sent you, for the inspection of the Society, the an- 

 nexed figure of a Pear Tree, and specimens of its produce, 

 viz. the Gansel's, the Ormskirk, and the York Bergamot 

 Pears. 



The main tree represented is the Summer Bonchretien, 

 trained horizontally on a wall with a south aspect. The de- 

 scending shoots are of various kinds of Pears, grafted reversely, 

 upon the under side of the horizontal branches ; which opera- 

 tion I have termed reverse grafting. The scions for this 

 method are inserted in the same manner as in rind grafting, 



