FEBRUARY. 
39 
France, to prevent any confusion between this and the Tresor of Duhamel, 
which is also called d’Amour, and which is synonymous with our Uvedale’s St. 
Germain. 
ALBERTINE.— Poit. 
Identification. —Poit. in Annales cle la Soc. Hort. Par. xv. 375. 
Fruit with a very fragrant odour; of medium size, being 3 inches long, and 
over 2A inches wide, short obovate, inclining to turbinate, even in its outline. 
Skin smooth, and rather shining, of a pale lemon colour, covered with thin 
cinnamon-coloured russet, 
which is not so thick as to 
obscure the ground colour ; 
the whole surface is strewed 
with very large russet specks, 
and faintly tinged with a 
blush of red on the side next 
the sun ; round the stalk and 
the eye there is a patch of 
thin pale brown russet. Eye 
half open, with erect, acute, 
incurved, fleshy segments, 
and set in a wide and shallow 
depression. Stalk about half 
an inch long, rather stout, 
and inserted in a very shal¬ 
low and narrow cavity. 
Flesh very tender, buttery, 
and melting, rich, sugary, 
and sprightly in its flavour, 
and with a fine, delicate, 
musky perfume. 
A first-rate Pear, in use 
in the end of September and 
the early part of October. It 
is a seedling of Van Mons, 
and was sent by him to M. Poiteau, at Paris, in the year 1833, under the 
number 1471, and M. Poiteau named it after his wife—Albertine. In Van 
Mons’ Catalogue it is distinguished as “ excellente sauvage Vandenzande.” 
(To be continued.') H. 
NEW HOLLYHOCKS. 
Whatever may be thought of the Hollyhock as a pet plant in small 
gardens, there can be no question that for blending with trees and 
shrubs in distant garden scenery no plant is more noble or more effective. 
Time was when we could lay claim to having originated the best white 
in White Globe; the best yellow in El Dorado; the best pink in 
Lizzie ; the best blush in Blushing Pride; the best scarlet in General Have¬ 
lock : and the best maroon in In Memoriam. These, though still good, were, 
in their day, broad steps in advance of pre-existing kinds, and their distri¬ 
bution formed a new starting-point for the improvers of this flower, which they 
have, with praiseworthy industry and skill, turned to good account; although 
from that period many have been working, the progress has been compara- 
