NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 363 
received a Cultural Commendation for a very fine sample of ' Beurre 
Diel ' Pears. Fig. 171 shows the tree which bore the fruit, the photograph 
having been taken whilst the tree was in blossom. The tree now covers 
a wall space of 26 ft. long by 8 ft. 6 in. high. It was originally (before 
ft?' 
Mr. Matthews took it in hand) a very old horizontally trained specimen, 
bearing very poor, small, cracked fruits, with hardly a single presentable 
one amongst them ; it is now perpendicularly trained, as the figure shows, 
clothed with abundance of clean, healthy fruit-bearing wood, and bears 
no cracked fruit. 
