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GEOUP I.— SOUTHEEN COUNTIES. 



BERKSHIRE. 



ExJdbitors. 



1. — C. Howe, Benliam Park Gardens, Newbury 



Number of Varieties Exhibited 24 



Observations. — Examples in general small. Beurre Eance, 

 stated to be a stewing Pear, was large and fine ; also Leon 

 Leclerc de Laval and Doyenne Boussoch. 



Exhihitors Fiemarlis. — Grown on walls, east and west aspect. 

 Soil, sandy loam on gravel, not many feet from the chalk. The 

 trees are trained in all sorts of forms, but all grown on the spur 

 system. Many of the trees are old ; the younger ones have been 

 planted within the last twelve years, and are trained on the 

 horizontal and fan systems. 



2. — John Stevens Pahsons, Woodlands, Cookham De?.n, 



Maidenhead. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... .. ... 1 



Observations. — Eair examples of Beurre Clairgeau. 



3. — C. Eoss, Gardener to C. Eyre, Esq., Welford Park, 



Newbury. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 28 



Observations. — Examples small but clear-skinned. The 

 following were noted : Pitmaston Duchess, Napoleon, British 

 Queen, Doyenne du Comice, and Bergamote Eeinette, a large, 

 pale- skinned, handsome fruit, but inferior in point of quality. 



Exhibitor's Remarks. — Grown on walls, south-east, south-west, 

 and north-west aspects. Garden over 200 years in cultivation ; 

 subsoil, gravel. Many of the trees here are over 50 years old ; 

 they have been grafted from time to time with other varieties. 

 Being exposed to the north-east very few sorts will do any good 

 in the open, so we have to depend on the walls for a crop ; but 

 Pears, as a rule, do not do so well here as Apples. Owing to the 

 dry season most of the sorts are smaller than usual. 



