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THE FLORIST AND FOMOLOGIST. 
others from 2 lbs. to 4 lbs. Black Alicante has done very well on a stock of 
the Marchioness of Hastings, but not better than on its own roots. On the 
other hand, Trebbiano has not done well on the Golden Hamburgh, nor 
Foster’s White Seedling on West’s St. Peter’s, but the most complete failures 
resulted from putting Bo wood Muscat and Frankenthal on a Black Barbarossa 
stock. The inarches made strong growths, showed and set their fruit very 
well, and everything seemed to go right with them till the berries should have 
taken their second swelling, when they began to shrivel, and made no farther 
progress towards maturity. As far as my experiments have gone they point 
out the Black Hamburgh as being a good stock to graft on, and the Black 
Barbarossa as an exceedingly bad one. 
I contemplate planting a house this coming season with Black Hamburgh 
Vines, on which to inarch all the more tender but high-flavoured Grapes, 
including the Muscat Hamburgh, which, in this way, can be grown as large in 
bunch, and much larger in berry, than the thick-skinned and coarse-flavoured 
Barbarossa, whose only recommendation is that it is a good keeper, and even 
in that respect it is not equal to Lady Downes’. 
Dalkeith Park . W. Thomson. 
THE PEAR AND ITS VARIETIES. 
The subject of which this is the commencement is a continuation of the 
British Pomology,” the first division of which was published now upwards 
of ten years ago. That portion was devoted entirely to the Apple, and contains 
descriptions of upwards of nine hundred varieties, illustrated with many 
engravings. Since that period there is little that can be added to that subject 
possessing much merit or interest. It is, however, far otherwise with the Pear. 
Ten years ago our knowledge of the numerous varieties that were then, being 
introduced from Belgium was small, and to have attempted to continue the 
work at that time would have been to fail in making it one of much utility, 
and merely to have skimmed the surface while the great mass remained 
untouched. Since that period opportunities have been obtained for investi¬ 
gating to a great extent the numerous varieties that now exist, and it shall be 
my endeavour to enter as fully into all the particulars relating to them as will 
interest those who are engaged in the study and pursuit of British Pomology. 
I may state at the outset that I shall, as far as I possibly can, record every 
known variety, however old or worthless it may be, my object being to make 
this a work to which reference may be made respecting any variety. And, 
although I may have occasion frequently to treat of a series of worthless or 
indifferent kinds, the information will not be the less valuable, for it is as 
important to know which are the bad as well as which are the good. 
ABBE EDOUARD.— Biv. 
Identification. —Alb. de Pom. iv. 69. Down. Fr. Amer. ed. 2, 448. 
Synonyme.- —Eduard’s Schmalzbirne, Dochn. Obst. ii. n. 361. 
Figuue. —Alb. de Pom. iv. 69. 
Fruit small, inclining to medium size, 2^ inches broad, and 2| inches high; 
roundish and inclining to turbinate. Skin bright green at first, but as it ripens 
becoming a clear yellow, and of a deep golden yellow on the side next the 
sun, and strewed with brown dots. Eye small and closed, set in a shallow 
depression. Stalk thin and woody, an inch long, and obliquely inserted on 
the apex of the fruit, with a fleshy swelling at its base. Flesh white, half 
buttery, melting and very juicy, sweet, and with a finely perfumed flavour. 
