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the florist and pomologist. 
[ may, 
it differs largely from European pears, having the same 
other JapanL pears. The shape of the fruit is very pe* Z^M- 
colour This variety can be used as a dessert pear, for though perhaps third 
is fm eating, it isit-class for ornament. « ^he 
not met with the attention of horticulturists generally this canno fail to do 
as it is more ornamental, more peculiar, and more fit for use. ^ ^ “ 
stout habit, mailing very long shoots, with quite ornamental leaves.-J. W. 
Ottolander and Son. 
To this we may add that the young wood and foliage of the 
pears indicate a vigorous habit of growth. That of the -lety named 
Ls the bark marked with oblong white spots, the buds very piom nent and Ae 
leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, gradually or rather suddenly ^ 
serrated with bristly teeth. The fruit, represented at fig. 1 , ^ . 
dull yellow freckled over with light brown 
very shallow. The flesh is coarse, gritty, and iininvit g 
leaves and flowers and fruit similar to the last. ^ o 
The fruit of the variety named Madan>. Von Siehold 
has a light olive-brown skin, thickly dotted with small pa e b^wn ^ > 
eye sunk in a deep narroWbasin, without caly.-lobes ; s alk 
a half long, also set in a narrow cavity. The flesh rs whrte, cnsp, and gntty .Jn 
the variety Sieholdii, the bark is marked with small brown sp , 
are ovate-acuminate, sharply serrate. The fruit, shown in 
golden-russet skin, dotted over with whitey-brown spec cs. ^ 
^ ' •4-4- c,r>A nriT^alitable The variety Ottolander has small lound dots o 
i‘L s “»>. w*. 
represented at fig. 4, is very distinct from that of the others, being obong in ou 
The flesh is white, rather gritty, with a pear flavour. They are all 
hardy deciduous ornamental trees.—T. M. 
the CULTURlToi^TilE HIFPEASTRUM. 
•BoLONEL TBEVOE CLibKKE is so well known as a successful grower of 
^ bulbous plants, that the following remarks of his on the management of 
the Hippeastnm, from the J<n,rnal of Horticulture, will doubtless afford a 
A useful hint to many growers. ... i* 4. 
The essential point in the cultivation of this genus-which 
from Amaryllis— in the comparatively new method of ripening the bi 
""wiil st;r: ten of punts m Hower now [March] and in succession for 
little shaded and removed from that part of the house which they ° ‘ ■ 
ment Keep them here till the leaves, or the greater part of them, have becom y 
grown and firm. This period will come on about the end of May and onwards 
