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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ October, 
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with great propriety have the growth well thinned, and the fruit exposed 
towards the time of stoning, hut from that time until the time of ripening- 
off the great object should he to encourage an abundance of healthy foliage 
to break the fierce rays of the sun, and enable the fruit to ripen gradually. 
Then, with perfect maturity we may expect perfect flavour. 
It is at the season of ripening that many persons, conceiving that the 
fruit requires direct sunlight, thin out the shoots and remove the foliage 
so as to thoroughly expose it. This in a cold and moist season might 
answer well, but in such a season as the one now past would be very bad 
practice, causing the fruit to ripen prematurely and to be deficient in size 
and flavour. There can be no doubt about the sun’s agency in the perfect 
maturation of these fruits ; but when we consider that several times during 
the past season a Fahrenheit thermometer suspended on a south wall in¬ 
dicated 147°, we can at once conceive how grateful foliage must be to the 
fruit, and understand why fruit with abundant foliage should be so much 
larger, and more equally ripened than where it is exposed to the full force 
of so great a heat. As soon, however, as the fruit is gathered, the growth 
should be well thinned out, and the permanent shoots nailed in at once. 
The effect of the season on flowers has been very various. Previous to 
the violent thunderstorm at the end of July the bedding display was superb, 
but since then hardly anything except Pelargoniums have recovered their 
beauty; Calceolarias especially have died off by hundreds ; blue Lobelias 
are nearly dead, and Verbenas very shabby. On the contrary, foliage plants 
have flourished beautifully, and have proved quite a redeeming feature. 
One word as to the temperature during the season. Commencing with 
May, the highest point attained here was 85°, in June it reached 88°, and 
the maximum 93° was attained on the 22nd of July. The thermometer 
from which these indications were taken has remained suspended in the 
same place for nearly 50 years, and the situation has been pronounced by 
scientific men to be well adapted for correct indications. During those 
years it has never before attained to 93°, the highest being 92° on the 15th 
of July, 1825. August was comparatively cool; though in the first week, 
83° was registered; while in the first week of September 85° was attained. 
Bedleaf. John Cox. 
SUMMER BEURRE D’AREMBERG PEAR. 
)UR contemporary, the Journal of Horticulture , gives the subjoined par¬ 
ticulars of this variety, which it recommends as a useful early 
Pear:—We have often heard from the lips of Mr. Rivers a flattering 
account of this new seedling Pear of his, which fruited for the first time 
two or three years ago. Fortunately this season the fruit has reached 
us in perfect condition, and from those now before us we furnish a figure 
