October 21, 1880. ] JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
The weather has lately been very bright, and Dahlias, Everlastings, 
Asters, and Lilium auratum (late-planted bulbs) are even yet 
fresh and attractive.— Dublinensis. 
BEURRE BOSC PEAR. 
Last week we figured a new Pear of considerable merit; this 
week we submit an old Pear of proved excellence and usefulness. 
There are brighter coloured Pears than Beurrd Bose, but when in 
good condition few are of better quality ; the tree is also a very 
good bearer, It is a favourite Pear in Kent grown as an orchard 
standard, and it would not be grown there if it were not profitable* 
In northerly localities it requires a wall, but in most sheltered 
gardens in the midland counties it succeeds well as a pyramid. 
This is essentially a useful Pear, as it is a pretty constant bearer 
and the fruit can generally be relied on. In the “ Fruit Manual” 
Beurrd Bose has four synonyms—Beurrd d’Apremont, Beurrd 
Bose, Canelle, and Marianne Nouvelle ; and it is described as 
follows :—“ Fruit large, pyriform. Skin almost entirely covered 
with thin cinnamon-coloured russet, leaving here and there only 
a small portion of the yellow ground colour visible. Eye open, 
placed in a shallow basin. Stalk about 1A inch long, inserted 
Fig. 70.—BEURRE BOSC TEAR. 
without depression. Flesh white, melting, and buttery ; very 
juicy, rich, and aromatic. A dessert Pear of first-rate quality ; 
ripe in October and November. The tree is a good bearer, but 
unless grown against a wall or in a warm situation the fruit is 
apt to be crisp or only half melting. This, which is generally 
supposed to have been a seedling of Yan Mons, was found a 
wilding at Apremont, in the Haute Soane, and was dedicated to Mr. 
Bose, the eminent Director of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris.” 
SHOW POTATOES. 
I AM glad to perceive from the courteous letter of Mr. Alexander 
Dean on page 346, that there were substantial reasons for doubting 
the distinctness of two of the varieties in the first-prize collection of 
twenty-four varieties at the late great Potato Show. “White Em¬ 
peror,” says Mr. Dean, “ is just like Blanchard in form and outline,” 
and the tubers of the former “ showed discoloration because they 
were large and forced nearer to the surface than the others.” They 
were, therefore, according to Mr. Dean, just alike in form, and 
nearly alike in colour. I said no more than that, and further, I did 
not pass any opinion on the identity of the two varieties, and ac¬ 
counted for the opinions of others on the ground that I well know 
to be true, that “ Potatoes vary much in different soils.” The fact, 
however, still remains that all the other White Emperors were 
really white. These, therefore, had not been forced out of the 
surface of the soil, and thus the little problem is solved. 
It appears there was still more reason for remarking on the very 
striking similarity of appearance between the Early Ohio and the 
Beauty of Hebron, for the principal difference, according to your 
correspondent, between the two varieties is in the haulm, that 
of the former being dwarfer, while the tubers on the average are 
rounder. I may remark on these distinctions that, as Mr. Beachey 
has observed, we do not eat the haulm ; and as to the shape of 
the tubers, there were many examples of Beauty of Hebron in the 
