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GROUP I, SOUTHERN COUNTIES — SURREY. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks, — Grrown on pyramids, and on east and 

 west walls, much exposed. Soil, liglit loam on gravel. 



11. — Benjamin Greaves, Gardener and Bailiff to F. Pennington, 



Esq., M.P., Broome Hall, Holmwood. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 46 



Observations. — The examples in general very good. The fol- 

 lowing w^ere noted : Beurre d'Anjou, from a pyramid ; Duchesse 

 d'Angouleme and Easter Beurre, from cordons ; Louise Bonne 

 of Jersey and Marie Louise, from walls. 



Exhibitors Ilemarks. — Situation on south slope of Leith, 

 500 feet above sea-level, and much exposed to east and west 

 winds. The best fruit here is produced on vertical cordons, 

 and horizontal trained trees, on east and w^est w^alls, wdiich are 

 pinched and lifted bi- or triennially, and are on Quince stocks. 

 Pears on Pear stocks are too luxuriant on this retentive soil, and 

 frequently fail to produce fruit. An early spring sometimes 

 excites the trees on w^alls into flower, which a succeeding frost 

 destroys, whilst the same kind as a bush or pyramid escapes. 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme is invariably better flavoured from pyramids 

 than from wall trees. Double grafting is found to be beneficial 

 where a strong growing kind is confined to a small space. Summer 

 pruning, or pinching, is preferred to winter pruning ; the latter 

 operation is limited to thinning the spurs. A mulching of fresh 

 horse droppings is found to be of great benefit, it has the effect, of 

 preventing this stiff ground from cracking and thereby breaking 

 many fibrous roots ; this is applied in July, wlien the temperature 

 of the ground is highest, after which clear and sew^age -svater is 

 applied copiously. 



Of all modes of training ; vertical cordon is the best, on 

 account of its simplicity and the facility with which old branches 

 can be replaced with j'oung ones. 



12. — Egbert Lloyd, The Gardens, Brookw^ood Asylum, Woking. 

 Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 40 



Ohser rations. — Fruit very small. 



