APRIL. 
85 
Elegans or Crystal Palace variety, but the flowers are much more brilliant and 
the foliage a better green. Plants should be put out in May, about 18 inches 
from each other, in soil which contains little or no sand, and very little manure. 
The seeds should occasionally be picked off; the foliage will then keep good 
all the season. It should be borne in mind that when being propagated no sand 
should be used, but leaf mould instead; the difference in the plants will soon 
be perceptible. The same remark applies to Elegans and all of the same genus. 
The Cedars, Castle Bromwich. Charles James Perry. 
THE PEAR AND ITS VARIETIES. 
( Continued from page 65.) 
ALEXANDRINA BIVORT.— Bivort. 
Identification. —Liron d’Air. Poir. Prec. 35. 
Fruit medium-sized, 3J inches high, and the same in diameter, round 
ish ovate. Skin 
smooth, bright 
green, faintly co¬ 
loured on the 
side next the 
sun, and irre¬ 
gularly strewed 
with minute rus¬ 
set points, chang¬ 
ing as it ripens to 
golden yellow, 
tinged with crim¬ 
son. Eye open, 
irregular, with 
broad thick seg¬ 
ments, and set in 
a wide plaited 
basin. Stalk lp 
inch to l^r long, 
slender, curved, 
fleshy at the 
point where it is 
inserted on the 
apex of the fruit, 
without depres¬ 
sion. Flesh fine¬ 
grained, melting, 
and juicy, sugary 
and perfumed. 
A good but not 
first - rate Sep¬ 
tember Pear. It 
ripens about the 
third week, and 
soon decays. 
This was rais¬ 
ed by M. Bivort, ' Alexandria Bivort. 
of Haelen, in Belgium, and was first brought into notice in 1847. 
