1877. ] 
PEARS : AMIRAL CKCILE AND BEUREE DE JONGIIE. 
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Jasmine also. In cutting the Jasmine for using in vases, &c., a few sprigs or 
even single flowers of the Chimonanthus mixed in with it sweetens an entire 
room, however large. In every garden, large or small, room should be found for 
one or more of each of these eaidy-flowering, most useful plants. They do well 
and flower profusely backed up against stables, piggeries, or other outbuildings, 
or against cottage or other walls ; and the best mode of treating them, so as to 
make a fine display when in flower, and also afford plenty of branchlets for 
cuttings, is to train on the leading shoots, and allow a full crop of laterals to 
depend from them, until after they have flowered, when they may be closely cut off, 
thus pruning the plant and procuring the flowers at the same time.—D. T. Fish. 
PEARS: AMIRAL CECILE AND BEURRE DE JONDHE. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
6|^UR plate represents two little-known winter pears, of excellent quality—so 
good indeed, that they may, with propriety, be added to any collection in 
which they do not already exist. 
^ Fig. 1, Amiral Oecile (Boisbunel).—This fine Pear, which is of 
Continental origin, and is comparatively new, fruited for the first time some five 
years ago in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, at Chiswick, where 
it is much esteemed. It begins to ripen shortly after Christmas, and continues 
in use until the end of Januaiy. For a Pear ripening at that season there are 
few to equal it, the flesh being as melting and juicy as any Pear in the month of 
October, and of an exceedingly rich and luscious character. It may be thus 
described :—Fruit rather below medium-size, roundish or oblate, a good deal 
flattened at the e 3 ^e, which is wide and open. The skin is dull green, changing 
to a reddish-lemon colour as it ripens, with patches of russet round the eye and 
stalk. The stalk is short, the flesh is very buttery and melting, slightly tinged 
with pink, extremely rich and luscious. The tree forms naturally a handsome 
pyramid ; it succeeds well on the quince, and is an abundant bearer. 
Fig. 2, Beurre DE Jonghe (Gambier).—This is another comparatively 
new pear, dedicated to M. de Jonghe, of Brussels : a late one also, and one 
of very great excellence. The Rev. G. Kemp first submitted examples 
of it to the Fruit Committee in 1875, when it was unanimously awarded a 
first-class certificate. It is a pear that seems well suited to the climate of 
this country, which very many of the Belgian pears are not. The fruit 
is of medium size, of a true pyriform shape, very regular and even, tapering 
to the stalk, which is short and fleshy, inserted a little on one side, and always 
having the appearance of having been broken off. The eye is small and 
open, nearly level with the surface of the fruit. The flesh is greenish yellow, 
very buttery and melting, with a fine rich flavour, and slightly perfumed. This fine 
Pear ripens during the month of January, and is equal in flavour to the best of 
the earlier varieties. It is a valuable acquisition, and ought to be in every 
collection.—B. 
