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GROUP I.— SOUTHERN COUNTIES. 

 WILTSHIRE. 



Exhihiiors. 



1. — G. Allen, Ramsbury Manor Gardens, Hungerford. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited 25 



Ohserrations. — Fruit small, those of Pitmaston Duchess and 

 Doyenne du Cornice very good. 



E.rliihitors Remarh. — Situation, low. Soil, strong loam ; chalk 

 subsoil. Pyramids and standards produce but little fruit, as 

 owing to the low situation we suffer much from spring frost. 

 Single cordons on wall produce good crops. Brockworth Park 

 (Bonne d'Ezeel is very good here this season. 



2. — -Blair Cochrane, Seend Manor House, Seend. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited .. 8 



Obser rations. — Fruit mostly small, those of Beurre Clairgeau 

 large and good. 



Exhibitor's Bewarks. — From walled garden on high hill, not 

 much sheltered. Soil, sandy, 1 foot deep, rich ; subsoil, iron- 

 rock. Trees mostly old. Fruit fine in wet seasons, but this is 

 not a good Pear soil. They are pruned in summer by thinning 

 shoots ; and also receive a slight winter pruning, except wall trees, 

 which are pruned more in winter than pyramids. I prefer 

 pyramids and standards to wall trees, the fruit is usually finer. 



3. — A. Miller, Gardener to W. H. Long, Esq., M.P., Rood 

 Asliton Court, Trowbridge. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited 59 



Ohserratiom. — Fruit in general small, the examples of Beurre 

 Superfin, Beurre de Capiaumont, Comte de Flandres, Nec 

 Plus Meuris, and Doyenne Boussocli being noteworthy. 



Exhibitor's Rewarhs. — Situation, sheltered. Soil, deep, hea^'y 

 loam, on sandy subsoil. Fruits sent grown mostly on pyramids 

 10 years planted, grafted on the Pear stock. 



