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VAEIETIES OF PEAES SUITED TO MONMOUTHSHIRE. 



October. 



Benrre Superfin 

 Brockworth Park 

 Brown Beurre 

 Flemish Beauty 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey 

 Pitmaston Duchess 



November. 



Alexandre Lambre 

 Althorp Crassaiie 

 Beurre Diel 



Hardy 

 Marie Louise d'Uccle 



December. 



Beurre Badielier 

 B eurr e B ere km an s 

 Josephine de Halines 

 Knight's Monarch 

 Thompson's 

 Winter Nelis 



January to March. 



Bergamote Esperen 

 Beurre d'Aremberg 

 Chaumontel 

 Easter Beurre 

 General Tottleben 

 Nec Plus Meuris 



For Orchard Culture. 



Aston Town 

 Beurre d'Amanlis 

 Diel 



Chaumontel ' 



Williams's Bon Chretien 

 Windsor 



Stewing Pears. 

 Catillac 



Uvedale's St. Germain 

 Vicar of Winkfield 



GBOUP v.— WESTERN COUNTIES. 



SHROPSHIRE. 



Exhibitor. 



1. — J. Lessels, Aqualate Hall, Newport. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 25 



Observations. — Examples extremely good, clear, and highly 

 coloured. The following grown on walls, the trees horizontally 

 trained, namely, Pitmaston Duchess, Fondante des Charneuses, 

 Beurre Diel, Urbaniste, British Queen, Marie Louise, and 

 Bergamote Esperen, were specially noted. 



Exhibitors Eemarks. — Situation, moderately exposed. Soil, 

 light ; subsoil, yellow sand. The trees are pruned in summer, and 

 close spurred in winter ; pyramids are summer pinched, kept 

 thin in wood, occasionally root-pruned. 



