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GKOUP VIII. 

 WALES. 



E.i'Jiibitors. 



l.—T. D. Daniel, Coed Park, Cwrn Avon. 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... ... ... ... 20 



Observations. — Examples mostly small, those of Duchesse 

 d'Angoiileme, from wall tree on the Quince, very good ; also 

 Doyenne Boussoch and Glou Mor9eau, from bush trees ; and Marie 

 Louise, from a standard. 



2. — George GpwIffin, Gardener to Baron de Eutzen, Slebeck 

 Park, Pembrokeshire. 



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



Ohsercations. — Examples of average merit, grown on walls. 

 The following .were noted as good, viz. : Durondeau, Catillac, 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, Pitmaston Duchess, Bishop's Thumb, 

 Josephine de Malines, and Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



Ed-liihitors FiemarJcs. — Situation, exposed to south-west Atlan- 

 tic winds. Soil, old garden, shallow, on broken Silurian rock, 

 mixed with clay, well drained. Pears are not grown in this 

 county except in the gardens of the gentry. To have Pears in 

 this county they must be grown on walls, in well- drained 

 borders, and the roots prevented from penetrating into the subsoil, 

 which, in Pembrokeshire, is nearly everywhere wet and cold. 

 Once the roots get down, the tree cankers and the fruit cracks. 

 The south-west and west winds off the Atlantic are also very 

 injurious ; if it blows about the time the trees are in flower the 

 crop will be lost, unless the trees are protected. Pears succeed 

 better in this district on the Quince than on the Free stock — 

 the fruit is larger and cleaner. 



8. — W. Jenkins, The Willows, Abergavenny, 



Number of Varieties Exhibited ... 15 



Observations. — Examples shown small, mostly from standards, 

 Bishop's Thumbs Bergamote Esperen, and Beurre Ranee 

 fairly goodi 



