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DELICES d’hAEDENPOXT. 
gi’ateful, but not so to all. This should be borne in mind, in 
forming a judgment of flavour for the frait-eating world. The 
Delices d’Hardenpont possesses a pleasant admixture of sweet- 
ness and acidity, with a moderate perfume, which can scarcely 
be otherwise than agreeable to eveiy palate that is not influ- 
enced by extreme fastidiousness. The original tree was raised 
at Mens, in France, by the late Counsellor Hardenpont, and 
the variety was first received in this country by the London 
Horticultural Society ; and cultivated, as a standard, in their 
garden at Chiswick, where its fruit proved of first-rate quality. 
When grafted on a Pear stock it is a healthy free grower, 
producing strong short-jointed shoots, and it is also a good 
bearer. In the vicinity of London, and in Kent, it is luxuiiant 
and productive, as a standard ; but in more unfavourable cli- 
mates, it may demand the assistance of a wall. At HeweLl, 
the seat of the Hon. E. H. Clive, M.P., where the temperature 
scarcely arrives at the average warmth of the midland counties, 
it succeeds admirably, on walls of southern exposure ; its fruit is 
there finely grown, ripens perfectly, and is held in high esteem, 
even in a collection of first-rate varieties. 
When fully ripe, as in October, in which month our drawing 
was made, it assumes a rich yellow tint, is strongly specked, 
and almost covered with a cinnamon-coloured nisset. Its flesh 
is a yellowish white, juicy and melting, but mixed with a fine 
grit. It is sweet, and possessing a pleasant slight astringency; 
with a very agreeable but not powerful perfume. 
Grafted on Quince stocks, and grown as dwarfs, in all the 
moderately favourable districts of England, the Delices d'Har- 
denpont will, doubtless, succeed perfectly. 
