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GROUP I. SOUTHERN COUNTIES HAMPSHIRE. 



Louise Bonne of Jersey, Mardclial de la Cour, Colmar D'Arem- 

 berg, Beiirre Hardy, Flemish Beauty, very highly coloured, 

 Doyenne du Cornice, Pitmaston Duchess, very fine, Olivier des 

 Serres, Seckle, Winter Nelis. 



Exhibitor s Bemarhs. — Situation sheltered, open to south and 

 east. Soil, light sandy loam, resting on gravel and sand. Our 

 soil being light, it is trenched deephj before planting, a few 

 |-inch bones being all the manure that is mixed directly with 

 the soil, preference being given to manuring by surface 

 mulchings of farm or stable-yard manure. As a rule, the trees 

 are lifted and replanted the second year after being first planted, 

 a plan that, as regards trees on the Quince stock, renders any 

 further root-pruning to promote fertihty unnecessary. Trees on 

 Pear stock are treated exactly the same when first planted, but 

 they grow so luxuriantly that we have to yartialhj root-prune 

 them once in three years. As regards pruning, the young 

 growths being closely pinched back twice during the summer, 

 very little w^inter pruning is needed other than the removal of a 

 shoot that may be crowding another, or a long spur that has be- 

 come budless at its base. Trees on walls we protect, when in flower, 

 with Scrim canvas, and bushes and cordons, as far as 

 practicable, with Spruce Fir boughs and Birch spray. 1 have a 

 decided preference for the Quince stock, but it should be under- 

 stood that hiijh feedin;/ is a necessity to keep the trees (jroiving ; 

 fruiting goes without saying — those who don't mean to feed, and 

 don't like hard work, and yet want a few Pears, should stick to 

 the natural stock. 



Varieties of Pears suited to Hampshire, 



Selected by 

 The Bev. J. L. Carrick, Southampton. 

 W. WiLDSMiTH, Heckfield Gardens, Winchfield. 





No. of Times 

 Selected. 





No. of Times 

 Selected. 



July and August. 





Sfptemhf)'. 





Beurre Giffard 



1 



Beurre dWmanlis 



1 



Souvenir du Congres 



1 



Fondante 





AVilliams's Bon 





d'Automne 



1 



Chretien 



1 



Hessel 



1 



AVilliams's Seedhng 



1 



Madame Treyve 



1 



