CXC PEOCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
rather large, obovoid ; skin yellow, covered with minute brown dots, and' 
slightly flushed with red on the exposed side ; eye nearly closed, with 
erect segments, and set in a very small shallow depression ; stalk thick, 
I inch long, and inserted rather obliquely. Flesh white, melting, and of 
good flavour. Mr. Divers wrote : ''It is one of the very best Pears for 
early winter use, as it comes in just after ' Doyenne du Comice ' is overj. 
Fig. 187. — Pear 'Beuere Dubuissox.' {Journal of Horticulture.) 
and keeps well for several weeks after it gets ripe. It bears well here on the 
Pear stock, both as a pyramid and trained against an east wall." (Fig. 187.) 
Award of Merit. 
To Cabbage ' Dobbie's Selected Winningstadt ' (votes, unanimous), 
from Messrs. Dobbie, Eothesay. A very fine selection of this excellent 
variety, all the heads being of moderate size, very firm, with pointed 
conical form, with a small spread of outer foliage. 
Culttoral Commmidation. 
To Mr. M. Mills, gr. to Frank Lloyd, Esq., Coombe House, Croydon, 
