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PYRAMID PEARS AND APPLES.-LILIUM TIGRINUM FLORE-PLENO. 
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PYRAMID PEARS AND APPLES. 
HE Josephine de Malines Pear, and Margil Apple, have done remarkably 
well here for the last two seasons, as pyramids. The Josephine de Malines 
is on the quince stock, and the soil being of a strong loamy nature on a 
red clay subsoil, the last dry warm summers have suited this and other 
high-flavoured varieties of Pears. One fine large pyramid of the Josephine, 
bore at least Id- bushels of Pears, which are now in season, and of the most 
delicious juicy flavour. There is a slight smack of astringency in the aroma, 
but it seems to me to add a piquancy to the flavour. In the same row of 
pyramids the Beurre d’Amanlis and its striped variety Panache\ on the quince 
stock, produced fine crops ; and when in season in the end of August they were 
better flavoured than the same kind of fruit on the walls. 
The Margil is one of the very best flavoured of our old varieties of Apples, 
and a sure bearer. In a border here, I have a row on the paradise stock trained 
as bushes, and they seldom fail to bear large crops. This past summer the fruit 
has been particularly well coloured, and their flavour very little behind that of 
the Ribston Pippin. The Scarlet Nonpareil , King of the Pippins , Cox’s Orange 
Pippin , Lamb Abbey Pear main, and Blenheim Pippin , are all growing in the 
same row, and on the paradise stock, but none of these varieties are such sure 
bearers as the Margil. — William Tillery, Welbeck. 
LILIUM TIGRINUM FLORE-PLENO. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
of our garden flowers are more beautiful than the different kinds of 
Lilies, of which there is a considerable number of highly varied forms 
under cultivation. The beautiful plant now figured has the habit of the 
old, well-known, and popular Tiger Lily, L. tigrinum , but is abundantly 
distinct from it as a garden flower on account of its double blossoms. The 
stems, which reach 3 ft. high or upwards, are furnished with a thin covering of 
white cobwebby hairs, and clothed with numerous scattered lanceolate leaves, the 
lower of wh'ich are 4 in. to G in. long, the upper ones shorter and broader, and bear¬ 
ing the usual black shining bulbils in their axils. The flowers form a fine spreading 
panicle at the top of the stem, but in the smaller and weaker specimens—we have 
figured the largest our page would permit us to copy—the stem was surmounted 
by only a couple of flowers. In this respect the variety quite resembles its type, 
the weaker bulbs produce one or two-flowered stems, the stronger ones a panicle 
of numerous flowers, varying in number according to the degree of vigour. The 
individual flowers are about 4 in. across ; but instead of the leaves of the perianth 
forming a single series, as in the ordinary Tiger Lily, there are in this double- 
flowered variety no fewer than six series of petaline segments, which, for the most 
part, are opposite, and lie over each other in their recurved position like the petals 
3rd series.— iv. c 
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