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GROUP v.— ^YESTERX COUNTIES. 

 WORCESTERSHIRE. 



Exliihitors. 



1.— Wllliam Crump, The Gardens, Madresfield Court, Malvern. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 37 



Ohservatioyis. — Examples large and fine, mostly from wall 

 trees on the Pear stock. The following were specially noted : 

 Easter Beurre, Beurre Diel, Doyenne du Cornice, Easter Beurre, 

 Beurre Bachelier, Pitmaston Duchess, Bergamote Esperen, 

 Beurre Superfin, and Knight's Monarch. Some examples of the 

 latter variety grown under glass were specially fine. 



Exhibitors Remarks. — Situation, 135 feet above sea-level, with 

 very little shelter ; aspect, open. Soil, strong loam, approaching 

 to clay ; subsoil, red marl, with gravel. Pears are largely 

 cultivated on the Free or Pear stock ; they do remarkably well in 

 the strong soil of this district so long as the roots are kept near 

 the surface by .systematic root-pruning, till tlie balance of fertility 

 is struck, otherwise, if allowed to root down unrestricted into the 

 wet, unkindly subsoil of strong marl, tlie fruit cracks and becomes 

 spotted and worthless, the trees making gross wood, which does 

 not ripen. Glou Mor9eau is one of the first to show distress. 

 1 do not infer that this root-pruning, however judiciously 

 done, will always secure full crops, as spring frosts have to be 

 taken into account. Our very finest Pears are grown on a west 

 aspect wall. 



A large number of sorts are grown in Orchards on standards 

 for Perry, which are quite useless for any other purpose. These 

 trees are many of them of large size, quite timber trees on pasture 

 land, certainly not worth the ground they occupy. Very few of 

 these kinds are now planted, and I am told tlie demand for this 

 beverage is on the decline, therefore the sooner these useless 

 kinds drop out of cultivation the better ; had I not been strongly 

 of this opinion, I would have sent up a collection of Perry Pears. 



2. — AViLLi.ui Davies, Eochford House, Tenbury, Worcester. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 40 



(Jbie)cations. — Examples small, some fine specimens of 

 Marie Louise and Pitmaston Duchess excepted. 



