GROUP I. SOUTHERN COUNTIES MIDDLESEX. 



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Alexandre Lambre, which is really a splendid cropper, and 

 Swan's Egg. Other kinds seem to fruit too irregularly to 

 render their culture on Pear stocks profitable. Marie Loui:~e 

 alone is double worked, on the Quince, as cordons on west wail 

 and as bushes. In both cases the double working seems to have 

 provoked needless strong growth, and whilst blooming freely do 

 not fruit freely. The trees in this case are about 8 years planted, 

 and all those on free-growing stocks about 15 years planted. 



4. — H. G. Draper, Acton Green. 

 Number of Varieties Exliibited ... ... ... ... 6 



Ohser cations. — Examples small. 



5. — John Graham, Cranford, Hounslow. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 2 



Observations. — The examples of Autumn Nelis, a variety 

 raised by the late Mr. Graham, were especially fine. This is a 

 very finely-flavoured Pear, well worthy of culture by amateurs, 

 but too small for general use. The examples of Seckle were very 

 large and fine. 



6. — James Hudson, Gardener to H. J. Atkinson, Esq., M.P., 

 Gunnersbury House, Acton. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 34 



Observations. — Examples moderately good, those of Flemish 

 Beauty, Napoleon, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Catillac, and Beurra 

 Gris d'Hiver being noted as the more prominent. 



Exhibitors Reiuarks. — Situation exposed, and that chiefly to 

 the east. Soil, light loam ; subsoil, gravel. 



These exhibits are chiefly from un pruned or moderately 

 pruned trees of considerable size, the greater portion of which, 

 are treated as orchard trees, the ground between them being 

 annualty cropped with vegetables. We suffer much from injury 

 by considerable exposure to easterly winds, also from drought 

 during dry seasons, such as this and the preceding year. 

 Our water supply being very much limited, no assistance in 

 way of watering has been possible. No thinning of the fruit 

 has been practised. The Pear stock in nearly every case has 

 been employed. The greater portion of the fruit exhibited has 

 been gathered from trees planted about 35 years. 



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