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FRUIT CULTURE: 



Doyenne du Cornice^ Glon Morceau^ Winter Nelis^ Benrre 

 Eance^ B. Sterckmans^ Josephine de Malines^ Bergamotte 

 Esperen, Easter Benrre. 



Of tlie above^ Marie Louise, BeuiTe Bosc, Dncliesse 

 d^Angouleme, Benrre Diel, Doyenne du Cornice, Glou 

 Morceau, Benrre Bance, Josephine de Malines, Bergamotte 

 Esperen, Easter Benrre, Benrre Sterckmans, Desire Cornelis, 

 and Winter Nelis should be grown against walls. In some 

 cases they may afford a satisfactory result away from them, 

 but if grown against white walls they will in all cases be 

 highly improved, and some of the very best of them are 

 only to be had in perfection when thus grown. As wall 

 space is often limited, and as it is necessary to have the 

 warmest walls to perfect the finest winter pears, it is desirable 

 to be very particular indeed when selecting pears for wall 

 culture ; and I should advise Easter Benrre, Doyenne du 

 Comice, Glou Morceau, Benrre Ranee, J osephine de Malines, 

 and Bergamotte Esperen to be abundantly planted against 

 walls wherever a prime supply of first rate winter pears is 

 a want — and of course it is a very general one. 



Some of our authorities on fruit growing give the Easter 

 Benrre as one which should be planted as a bush or pyramid, 

 and say it is " mealy and insipid from walls.'''' To show how 

 worthless is this opinion,! have merely to point to the fact that 

 the splendid Easter Beurres which adorn our tables in winter 

 and spring are grown on walls in Erance. All of the same 

 variety for the imperial table are grown in like manner at 

 Versailles ; and as soon as a wall is cleared of other varieties 

 of Pear trees there it is immediately planted with the Easter 

 Benrre — so much is this fine variety esteemed. The quantity 

 of its fruits sold in the markets of Europe during the winter 

 season is something incredible. It is perhaps the most valu- 

 able of all winter Pears ; and the chief, I may say nearly the 

 whole supply comes from France. The climate does it, some 

 will say, but such is not the case ; for if left to the climate un- 

 aided, we should have few fine Easter Benrre pears in Covent- 

 garden in winter. And the same remark applies to other 

 varieties of winter Pears. The flavour is said to be inferior 

 when grown against walls. Let us try them against white 



