G-EOUP I. SOUTHERN COUNTIES SURREY. 



Observations. — Examples of fair average size, moderately 

 good. The following were noted : Eyewood, from a pyramid 

 on the Quince, also Benrre Clairgeau, Marechal de la Com-, 

 Suffolk Thorn, and Doyenne du Cornice. 



Fd'hibitor's Fuvnarks. — Situation, low and damp, sheltered on 

 the east by tall forest trees ; open to south and west. Soil, 

 light peaty, on wet gravelly subsoil. 



''My Garden. — At Wallington our Pears are almost exclusively 

 grown on the Quince stock, and are worked close to the ground. 

 Some few varieties, such as Gansel's Bergamot and Marie Louise, 

 are worked upon a Pear, which has itself been grafted upon the 

 Quince ; and a very few, such as Jargonelle and Nec Plus Meuris, 

 are grown on the Pear stock, because they do not succeed well 

 when they are grafted on the Quince. The Quince-rooted Pear 

 trees are grown as pyramids, all cut to one height, nine feet. 

 The rule is to pinch the top shoots in June, when the first 

 shoots appear, and it is a good plan to pinch back the young 

 shoots to about three leaves at the upper half of the tree a few 

 days before the shoots of the lower half of the tree are touclaed, 

 because the upper shoots have a tendency to grow much more 

 strongly than those on the lower half. In winter, when the 

 exuberant shoots of the tree are cut back, care is taken not to 

 cut off the bearing spurs. In the poor exhausted humus of the 

 ground at Wallington, old brick rubbish is very desirable, the 

 pieces of broken bricks, the sulphate of lime, carbonate of lime, 

 sand, and burnt garden refuse, mixed together, being favourable 

 to growth." 



When the trees are allowed to remain several years 

 without liftmg, the roots find their Avay down to the Avet 

 subsoil, and then seldom bear satisfactorily. A number 

 are lifted each year and replanted in good maiden loam, brick 

 rubbish, &c. ; the following season the surface of the ground 

 is a mass of fibrous roots, and the trees are furnished with short 

 healthy shoots. The Pears here this year are generally under- 

 sized, on account of lifting and the excessive drought during 

 summer. All the trees are supposed to be under 30 years 

 of age. 



6. — James Dean, Gardener to G. W. Leveson-Gower, Esq., 

 Titsey Place, Limpsfield. 



Nmnber of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 24 



