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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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Good Pears Grown at Belvoir. 
Doyenne d’Ete 
Jargonelle 
Doyenne Boussoch 
Williams’ Bon Chretien 
Bergamotte d’Automne 
Beurre d’Amanlis 
Beurrti Superfin 
Marie Louise 
British Queen 
Doyenne du Comice 
Beurre d’Aremberg 
Beurre d’Anjou 
Soldat d’Esperen 
Bergamotte Esperen 
Easter Beurre 
Josephine de Malices 
Knight’s Monarch 
Beurre Ranee 
Beurre du Buisson 
Olivier de Serres 
Winter Nelis 
Beurre Hardy 
Beurre Diel 
Huyshe’s Victoria 
Huyshe’s Bergamot 
Angelina Burdett 
Rivers’ Early Prolific 
Kirke’s 
Jefferson 
Green Gage 
Reine Claude de Bavay 
Purple Gage 
Early Orleans 
Plums. 
Coe’s Golden Drop 
Yellow Magnum Bonum 
Imperatrice 
Victoria 
Prince Englebert 
Pond’s Seedling 
Wine Sour 
Red. 
Crown Bob 
Ironmonger 
Red Champagne 
Warrington 
Whinham’s Industry 
Gooseberries. 
Yellow. 
Golden Drop 
Yellow Rough 
Green. 
Greengage 
Rosebery 
Raby Castle 
New Dutch 
Red Grape 
White Dutch 
Carter’s Prolific 
Currants. 
White Transparent 
Black Baldwin 
Black Naples 
Black Lee’s Prolific 
Raspberries. 
Antwerp Red 
The following selection has been supplied to me by Mr. Thomas 
Warner of Leicester :— 
Apples. 
Blenheim Orange. —Does only fairly well, and never gets equal 
to south or south-western grown fruit. 
Bess Pool. —A very good late Apple, but a shy bearer for the 
first twenty years after planting, after which it bears well every 
other year. 
Bramley's Seedling. —This is a very good winter Apple, and 
bears well as a young tree. 
Annie Elizabeth. —A handsome Apple, but of only second rate 
quality. 
Caldwell. —-One of the best late cooking Apples, very hardy. 
Keswick Godlin. —One of the best early cookers. 
Cox's Orange Pippin. —Early and free bearer, first-rate quality, 
and very good keeper. 
Duchess of Oldenburg. —The best early cooking Apple I know, 
a splendid grower, and fruits regularly. 
Dumelow's Seedling. — One of the best late cookers ; free 
grower and good bearer. 
Greenup's Pippin. —Handsome, good bearer and free grower ; the 
best Apple for making jelly ; always commands a good price in 
the market. 
Early Red Margaret. —A very good early dessert Apple. 
Joaneting. —Poor quality, but fruits and sells well : a decidedly 
profitable Apple. 
King of the Pippins— Good in every way. 
Lane's Prince Albert. —Very good, free grower and bearer. 
Lord Sufield. —A bad grower but very fine fruit. 
Northern Greening. —A splendid late cooking variety. 
Devonshire Quarrenden. —Very good, free bearer. 
Ribston Pippin. —Too good to be left out, but, in my opinion, 
for this locality, superseded by Cox’s Orange Pippin. 
Stunner Pippin. —A valuable late Apple, good keeper ; tree very 
hardy, and good bearer. 
Warner s King. —Very large, free grower, and good bearer. 
Warner's Seedling. —First rate quality, free grower, good and 
certain bearer. 
Pears. 
Beurre d'Amanlis. —Good bearer and first quality. 
Beurre de Capiaumont. — Good bearer, fair quality. 
Easter Beurre .— A very good late variety. 
Beurre Ranee. —The best late Pear known. I ate them from, 
standard trees the last week in May. 
Bon Chretien. —One of the best market Pears. 
Hessle. —One of the best market Pears. 
Doyenne du Comice. —Very good. Equal in flavour to' any 
Pear I ever tasted. Grows well as a standard. 
Jargonelle. —Very good. 
Louise Bonne of Jersey. —Good : free bearer. 
Beurre Did. —Good market Pear ; second quality- 
Marie Louise. —Splendid, but an uncertain bearer.. 
Plums. 
Bleeker's Scarlet. —Free bearer ; good. 
Damson Shropshire. —Free bearer ; very good variety. 
Diamond. —Fine cooking variety. 
Early Prolific. —Free bearer ; good, but rather too small. 
Coe's Golden Drop. —One of the best varieties grown. 
Early Orleans. —Good ; free bearer. 
Prince Englebert. —-Good ; free bearer. 
Reine Claude de Bavay. —Great bearer, good quality ; the besk 
of the late Gages. 
Syston. —Good bearer, poor quality, but a very profitable market 
variety. 
Victoria. —The best bearer, good grower, and profitable as a 
market Plum. 
Cherries. 
May Duke. White Heart. 
Bigarreau. Morello. 
In making out this list, Mr. Warner adds, I have confined 
myself to trees I know do well as standards. Of course there are 
many more varieties worth growing, especially for dessert purposes,, 
which I have not named ; but I think those I have enumerated 
all do well in Leicestershire, and are good profitable sorts. 
Cypripedium Godefroy^e. 
There is a wide variation in the foliage of this species, soma 
plants being much darker than others. The flowers also vary con¬ 
siderably. Plants with dark foliage have slightly larger flowers than 
those with lighter leaves, but the upper sepal is not so beautifully 
spotted in the former as the latter, yet there are more spots on the 
back of the sepal than in the lighter foliaged form. The other 
portions of the flower are very similar. This plant thrives in well- 
drained pots in a mixture of peat and moss, with a little charcoal 
added. It delights in a warm moist atmosphere, where it is well 
shaded from the sun. 
Cattleya Gaskelliana. 
The various forms of this Cattleya make an attractive display 
just now, and are very effective in a shady position in the con¬ 
servatory, grouped with Ferns. When used in this position be 
careful not to place them where cold draughts will strike upon 
them. These plants are not damaged in the least by being placed 
in rooms for a few days. The flowers last perfectly fresh much 
longer in the cooler and drier atmosphere of the conservatory than 
in the Orchid house, where blocks and baskets have to be syringed, 
and a moist atmosphere maintained to suit mixed collections of 
plants. 
Cattleya Eldorado. 
Where room is limited the numerous forms of this Orchid will 
be found to do better suspended from the roof in ordinary pots- 
then when standing on the stage. It requires a warm moist 
atmosphere and plenty of water during the season of growth. The 
last plants with us have flowered, and they will be arranged at the 
lightest but coolest end of the structure, to thoroughly develope 
and mature the young pseudo-bulbs on which the flowers have been 
produced. 
Lielia purpurata. 
Plants of this useful Orchid should be starting strongly into 
growth. Where they are fairly started place them at the coolest 
end of the Cattleya house, and top-dress them with living sphagnum 
and peat. If they need larger pots repot them at once. If the 
compost is in good condition do not disturb the roots, but break 
the pots, and any portions that cling to the roots should be placed 
