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And selections from — 



Avant. Incomparable. Nutmeg. 



Chancellor. Montauban. Pavie Eoyale, &o. 



Double Montague. 



The Nectarines might perhaps be selected from — 



Brugnon. Murrey. Temple. 



Clermont. Newington. Violette Hative. 



Elruge. Red Roman. White. 



Hunt's Tawny. Scarlet. 



The Apricots might probably consist of — 



Breda. Orange. Turkey. 



Brussels. Roman. 



The Vines would be Black and White Sweetwater, Black 

 Cluster, White Muscadine, and perhaps a few Continental novel- 

 ties on trial, such as D'Arboyce, Rhenish, Lombardy, and others 

 now unknown. 



On the east and west walls we should find Pears, mingled 

 with Plums. The latter would very probably be the successors 

 of a yet more ancient race of Pears, which had given out from 

 old age. These wall Pears would be enormous horizontal and 

 formally trained trees, interspersed with fan-trained examples ; 

 Jargonelle, bearing a healthy lot of leaves, with a few large 

 fruits on the tips of the branches ; Chaumontel, of which the 

 only healthy portion (the top line of boughs) would carry a few 

 large Pears ; Passe Colmar, a faggot of spurs and leaves, bear- 

 ing a crop every other year ; Gansel's Bergamot in a worse 

 plight than the Chaumontel, cankered and grievous, but grown 

 because the owner has a fancy for a dish or two in the pheasant 

 season ; Windsor, like an Elm for robust growth, giving a few 

 enormous and brilliantly coloured fruits, a special food for the 

 wasps and bees ; the then new Glou Morceau and Marie Louise 

 would be fine young trees bearing a lot of good fruit, though 

 perhaps too thickly set with lateral boughs ; besides Gratioli of 

 Jersey, Louise Bonne, Duchesse d'Angouleme, March Bergamot, 

 Beurre Diel, then of the first rank, with Nec Plus Meuris for a 

 late sort, and Catillac for stewing. 



On the east and west walls Amber Bigarreau, May Duke, and 

 Waterloo Cherries would also be trained, and possibly Black 

 Tartarian, Late Duke, Black Heart, Bleeding Heart, and 

 Florence. A few of the choicest Dessert Apples, as Ribston, Old 



