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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
earth; some are planted into turf pits, south borders, warm corners, flower- 
garden beds, sloping banks, and all kinds of odd places. These plants produce 
very large flowers in.abundance, with long stalks, scenting the whole locality all 
winter. Those in turf pits, if frost and snow set in, get protected by thatched 
frames. As soon as their blooming season is over the whole are destroyed, and 
seedlings again grown on for the next season. 
The other varieties of double Yiolets are treated similarly to the Neapolitan, 
by layers, and summered in shady quarters. 
JBicton. James Barnes. 
THE PEAR AND ITS VARIETIES. 
( Continued from 'page 39.) 
ALEXANDER.— Dozen. 
Identification. —Down. Fr. Amer. 449. 
Fruit medium sized, irregularly obovate, inclining to oblong, somewhat 
one-sided. Skin yellowish green, dotted, striped, and splashed with russet, 
and slightly tinged with red next the sun. Eye small and partially closed. 
Stalk slender, rather long, curved, fleshy at its insertion, and inserted in a 
moderately deep cavity by the side of a fleshy lip. Flesh white, a little coarse 
and gritty, very juicy, melting, sugary, and rich. 
An American Pear, said to be of good quality, but I am not aware that it 
has ever been tried in this country. 
ALEXANDRE BIVORT.— Berckmans. 
Identification. —Alb. de Pom. ii. 109. Liron d’Air. Poir. Free. 34. 
Figure. —Alb. de Pom. ii. 109. 
Fruit medium sized, turbinate, inclining to pyriform, even and regular in its 
outline. Skin smoooth at 
first, of a clear, lively, shin¬ 
ing green, marked with a 
few brown spots and sprink¬ 
led with russet, and with a 
brown russet patch round 
the stalk; as it ripens it 
assumes a yellow colour. 
Eye small, irregular, set in 
a wide shallow basin. Stalk 
about three quarters of an 
inch long, straight and stout, 
inserted in a small narrow 
cavity. Flesh fine-grained, 
tender,buttery, and melting; 
white with a rosy tinge, 
veryj uicy, sugary, and finely 
perfumed. 
A first-rate dessert Pear, 
ripe in the end of December 
and beginning of January. 
This variety was raised 
from seed by M. Berckmans, 
and in 1848 was named in 
honour of M. Alexandre 
Bivort, the Belgian pomo- 
Alexandre Bivort. loeist 
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