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CORXISH GILLI FLOWER. 
enriched by the addition of leaf-mould. The subsoil is a strong 
tenacious clay. 
Mr. Rivers, who has the Cornish Gilliflower in cultivation in 
his Nursery, at Sawbridgeworth, says, that it is an excellent 
hearer ; but he conceives it to be of the first importance that it be 
grafted on the Paradise Stock, for garden culture. As respects 
the operation itself of grafting, he adopts the common whip 
grafting, as the most simple and never-failing. 
Here we have the indisputable evidence of experienced cul- 
tivators that, \rith proper management, this tree is a prolific 
bearer, and very little doubt can remain but that the accusa- 
tion of its being a “shy bearer” was first made, at least occa- 
sioned, by an incompetent or unobseiwant pniner; who, regard- 
less of the habit of the tree in bearing at the points of the 
young shoots, shortened them all indiscriminately, as he would 
those of such trees as bear chiefly on spurs. The e^•idence of 
these practical men, who have so obligingly stated the results 
of their practice, will, we are sure, rescue the Cornish Gilliflower 
from the stigma of sterility. 
The quality of this frait has been noticed; we may, however, 
add that its flesh we esteem as of rather too firm a consistence ; 
but its flavour, noririthstanding the variation of palates, will 
generally be admitted as excelling all others. The late Thomas 
Andrew Knight, Esq., to whose science and industry every 
horticulturist owes an immeasurable debt of gratitude, says, in 
allusion to the quality of the Cornish Gilliflower, “In my esti- 
mation it is, and always was, without a rival in the climate of 
England.” 
