128 GROUl? V. WESTERN COUNTIES WORCESTERSHIRE. 



E.vhihltors Remarks. — Situation, open. Soil, very heavy clay ; 

 subsoil, red marl. Planting. — Pears require to be planted very 

 shallow in this heavy soil, or the wood will not ripen off well. 

 Fruniwj. — The less you use the knife the better for standard 

 trees ; all that is required is to thin out the tops, and this should 

 be done directly the fruit is gathered. Dwarf- trained trees require 

 more care. Winter pruning should not be practised, because it 

 injures the buds when they are at rest, rioot-pnimng should not 

 be attempted when the trees are fruitful. Once in every three 

 years I consider often enough as a rule, and the best time to 

 root-prune is just as the leaves change colour. 



3. — Wm. Forbes Gibbon, Seaford Grange, Pershore. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 14 



Ohser cations. — Examples mostly small, Doyenne Boussoch 

 and one or two others excepted. 



Ei-hihitors Bemarks. — Situation, open. Soil, stiff clay. 

 The Pears exhibited by me were grown on standards and 

 pyramids in my fruit plantation here. The Hessel, Brown 

 Sovereign, Brown Beurre, and Winter Crassane, are par- 

 ticularly productive and suited to the locality. The two extra 

 Pears : one is the Black Pear of Worcester, which is now very 

 rare, and only of value for its historical association, and the 

 other, the Barland Pear, much esteemed for Perry. 



4. — H. Eitchie, Eardiston Gardens, Worcester. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited 50 



Observations. — Examples in general small, of fair appearance 

 and quality, those of Pitmaston Duchess very large, also 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey, Marie Louise d'Uccle, Knight's 

 Monarch, Beurre Eance, and Catillac. 



Ed-Jiihitors' Ilemarks. — Situation, exposed. Soil, heavy loam ; 

 subsoil, stonebrash. Most of the sorts are grown on grass land-— 

 standard trees, with stems about 7 feet high, and receive no 

 regular pruning, only having the shoots thinned out about once 

 in five years. Stocks, chiefly the old Quince. All our finest 

 fruits are from walls, cultured regularly and spur-pruned. 



5. — R, Smith & Co., Nurserymen, &c., Worcester. 

 Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 82 



