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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST 
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melting, but it is first-rate for stewing, and can be kept in good condition until 
July. 
All the above late Pears I can highly recommend, as being the very best in 
large gardens to keep up a supply for the dessert till the end of the Pear season. 
—William Tillery, Welbeck. 
STATICE SPICATA. 
(IST this spike-flowered Statice we have an annual plant, 'which, as our figure 
$3 shows, assumes an ornamental character by reason of its numerous close 
fiff spikes of rosy-coloured flowers. It is not strictly new, since it is recorded 
c fcj> as having been introduced in 1818, but it seems then to have been soon 
lost, and so comes now before us with all the freshness of a novel introduction. 
The plant naturally inhabits the dry saline deserts of the Caucasian regions, as well 
as the elevated plains of Northern Persia, on the opposite side of the Caspian 
Sea, and it bears, besides the adopted name, the additional ones of S. lyrata and 
S. sisymbrifolia. Most of the Statices are pretty plants, some even are of a 
highly decorative character, and from all we know of S. spicatci , we may welcome 
