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fine; C. pyramidalis atro-sanguinea; C. pyramidalis aurea, very fine, one of 
the best; C. pyramidalis coccinea aurantiaca: C. pyramidalis rosea, fine. 
The new Convolvulus, with the prodigious long name of Cantabricus stellatus 
novus, I have grown this summer, but could make nothing of, so as to call it 
a desirable plant for a basket-trailer. With me it showed its flowers in the 
autumn, but not in abundance, the colour being a dingy pink, with the star of 
white in the centre not very well defined. 
Welbeck. William Tillery. 
THE PEAR AND ITS VARIETIES. 
( Continued from page 15.) 
ADAM.— Hort. 
Identification.— Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. p. 122. 
Fruit below medium size, inches wide, and about 2f inches long, 
doyenne-shaped, even and regularly formed. Skin smooth, of a greenish- 
yellow, and mottled all over with 
very pale grey russet, which here 
and there runs into patches. Eye 
small, with star-like segments, and 
set level with the surface. Stalk 
three-quarters of an inch long, 
stout, and w r oody, inserted in a 
narrow cavity. Flesh yellowish, 
melting, slightly gritty, sweet, 
but not richly-flavoured, and with 
slight muscat aroma. 
A dessert Pear of scarcely 
second-rate qualit}^ ripe in the 
end of October, w r hen it becomes 
rotten at the core if not carefully 
watched. 
ADAMS.— Hovey . 
Identification. — Hovey’s Mag. 
xiv. 527. 
Fruit large and pyriform. 
Skin smooth, deep yellow, shaded 
with red on the side exposed to 
the sun, and covered with russet 
dots. Eye small and closed, not 
at all depressed, but placed even 
with the surface. Stalk short and 
stout, fleshy at the base, and obliquely inserted on the apex of the fruit without 
any depression. Flesh white, fine-grained, melting, and juicy, with a brisk, 
sweet, and agreeable flavour, and nicely perfumed. 
An American Pear, in use during September and October. It is esteemed 
in America as a fruit of first-rate quality, but in this country it possesses no 
great merit. 
ADELAIDE DE REYES.— Bivort. 
Identification.— Bivort Annales de Pom. Belg. 
Fruit about medium size, 3 inches long, and rather more than 2 \ inches 
