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THE FL0KIST AND POMOLOGIST, 



fully striped with various shades of colour on a white ground. Among the 

 most beautiful are Carolina Cavagnini and Conte Bern. Lechi. The former is 

 white, banded and striated with scarlet ; the latter is white, banded and striated 

 with violet. Ablate Savoldi has a brownish-violet ground, banded with 

 reddish-brown ; but the striping runs so into the ground colour that it is 

 almost invisible to the naked eye. Conte Valloti is more delicately striped 

 than Conte Bern. Lechi, and is not so much banded nor so deep in colour ; but 

 a very beautiful thing nevertheless. Angelo Menzi is not so large in the flower 

 as the others, but the segments of the corolla are broader and fill up the flower 

 better, approaching more to perfection according to the florists' standard than 

 any of the others. Emilia Cavagnini bears a considerable resemblance to 

 Conte Valloti, but is paler in colour and the segments of the petals are fuller. 

 They are all very beautiful, and will, no doubt, form the groundwork of some- 

 thing very choice in the way of show Verbenas. 



BE MARAISE AND BELLE JULIE PEARS. 



WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The tree of De Maraise, and which produced the fruit that furnished 

 the subject of our present illustration, was received fifteen years ago from 

 M. Papeleu, of Ghent. It is said to have originated with Van MonSj but 

 what are the particulars of its history we have never been able to ascertain ; 

 it is, however, a variety which deserves to have a place among the most select 

 of the autumn Pears. 



The fruit is rather below medium size, even, very handsome, and regularly 

 formed. The skin is smooth, and has a fine aurora glow on the side next the 

 sun, and dotted over with large russet freckles. The glow of colour gradually 

 fades away on the shaded side, where it is a fine clear yellow covered with 

 large russet freckles. Eye very small and open, set in a shallow and rather 

 narrow basin. Stalk long and slender, inserted by the side of a fleshy lip in a 

 small narrow cavity. Flesh yellowish, tender, melting, and very juicy. Juice 

 abundant, very rich, and honied, and with a fine powerful aroma which is not 

 musky. 



This is a very beautiful and very first-rate Pear, ripe in the end of October 

 and beginning of November, and continues till December. 



Belle Julie is a seedling raised by Van Mons, and which first fruited in 

 1842. It was named in honour of his grand-daughter, the daughter of General 

 Van Mons. 



The fruit is long obovate, even, and regularly shaped. The skin is rather 

 rough to the feel from the large russety specks with which it is covered. The 

 colour is dull brown, somewhat like that of the Brown Beurre ; and on the 

 side next the sun it has a warm reddish-brown glow, like a gipsy's blush. On 

 the shaded side, where the skin is not covered with russet, the green ground 

 colour shows through. Stalk an inch long, brown, and woody, inserted on one 

 side of the fruit under a fleshy lip. Eye clove-like, wide open, with long 

 segments, and set almost on a level with the surface of the fruit. Plesh yel- 

 lowish, tender, buttery, melting, and very juicy. The juice is rich, sugary, 

 and vinous, with a fine perfume. 



A most delicious Pear, ripe in the end of October. This ought to be more 

 extensively cultivated. 



