GKOUP III. MIDLAND COUNTIES SOUTH. — BUCKINGHAMSHIR^E. 81 



Van Moiis Leoa Leclerc, Beurre Diel, Doyenne du Gomice, 

 Ducliesse d'Angouleme, Bergamote d'Esperen, Pitmaston 

 Duchess, Knight's Monarch. 



Ed'ldhitors Remarks. — Situation, sheltered valley, running 

 from east to west. Soil, a dark, peaty loam ; resting on Vydelk 

 Peat, which is full of water. The collection which I send is 

 from trees on the Pear stock, trained horizontally on walls of 

 different aspects. Owing to the large crop of fruit on the trees 

 this season, they are smaller than usual. The trees are planted 

 in good loam ahout 30 inches in depth, beneath which a layer 

 15 inches thick of broken bricks is placed. The trees are 

 subjected to the ordinary course of pruning in the winter 

 months, and the spring growths are shortened back to within three 

 or four inches of the base about midsummer each year. The 

 under-mentioned are the most choice in regard to quality here : 

 Williams's Bon Chretien, Beurre de Capiaumont, Louise Bonne 

 of Jersey, Marie Louise, Pitmaston Duchess, Doyenne du Comice, 

 Van Mons Leon Leclerc, Winter Nelis, Glou Mor9eau, Josephine 

 de Malines, Knight's Monarch, Beurre Ranee. 



3. — James Smith, Gardener to the Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore, 



Bucks. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 50 



Observations. — Examples moderately fine, clear skinned. 

 The following were noted as specially good : Marie Louise 

 d'Uccle, Winter Nelis (from pyramids on the Quince), Doyenne 

 Boussoch, Conseiller de la Cour, Marie Louise, General 

 Tottleben. 



Eichihitor's Remarks. — Situation, exposed. Soil, clay, heavy 

 loam, &c. Orchard trees on Pear stock are gone over and the 

 crowded branches thinned out in the autumn. Small pyramid 

 trees are mostly pinched back in summer, so that little winter 

 pruning is required. Our great scourge is late spring frosts, 

 which often cuts off all our early bloom, so that there is seldom 

 more than half a crop left, and those in the middle of the trees, 

 in the worst positions for ripening. 



Here we have trees in all positions — on walls, as standards, 

 as well as a large collection of small trees on the Quince stock 

 grown as pyramids ; these being planted in the most exposed and 

 highest part of the gardens, as a rule produce the best and fines 



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