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portions. Plants should be chosen that have been twice stopped. After potting 
they should be kept in a cold frame for a few days tolerably close, they should then 
be removed to a well-ventilated cool greenhouse ; short sticks should be put to each 
shoot, and the plants should be disbudded as soon as the small buds can be 
removed with the thumb and finger. This disbudding will keep the plants dwarf 
and bushy. Annexed are the names of a dozen distinct kinds well adapted for the 
purpose, all of which could be obtained at 4s. or 5s. per dozen—viz. 
Adorata Superba. —A shaded crimson kind with large eye. Yery fragrant. 
Annihilator. —Colour bright crimson with white eye. Fine in form. 
Black Prince. —A deep purple kind with white eye. Quite distinct. 
Cato. —Flesh colour with purple centre. Very pretty. 
Decorator. —A compact-growing glossy crimson variety. 
L’ Avenir de Ballent .—Shaded pink with crimson centre. A handsome and 
singular-looking flower. 
Lord Leigh. —Brilliant scarlet with wdiite eye. A strong grower. 
Lord Craven .—Purple or plum colour. Large truss. 
Magnificens. —Shaded lavender. Large and fine. 
Bose Lmperial. —A capital pot variety. Posy pink with crimson centre. 
Buby King. —A distinct and beautiful kind. 
Sylph. —Pale flesh with light crimson centre. Chaste and pleasing. 
Venus .—Pure waxy white with purple centre. Distinct. 
The Cedars, Castle Bromwich. Chas. Jas. Perry. 
THE PEAR AND ITS VARIETIES. 
( Continued from page 138.) 
ANGE.— Dull. 
Identification. —Duh. Arb. Fruit, ii. 138. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. p. 122. 
Synonymes. —Wahre Englesbirne, Diet Kernobst. vii. 8. Kleine Wasserbirne, 
Kleine Engelsbirne, Mayer Pom. Franc, iii. 183. Engelsbirne, Christ Handworterb. 171. 
Figure. —Mayer Pom. Franc, iii. tab. viii. 
Fruit small If inch long, and about the same wide, turbinate. Skin 
smooth, of a deep green colour at first, but changing to a yellowish shade as 
it attains maturity, and with sometimes a tinge of brownish red on the side 
exposed to the sun; it is also marked with lines of dark brown russet and 
patches of light brown. Eye open, with long flat segments, placed in a rather 
shallow basin, which is somewhat undulating. Stalk 1-^ inch long, slender 
and woody, and inserted, without depression, by the side of one or two fleshy 
swellings. Flesh white, tender, juicy, sugary, and musky-flavoured. 
A very old French dessert Pear, of good but not first-rate quality, ripe in 
the beginning of September. 
The tree succeeds well as a standard on the quince, and is an abundant 
bearer. 
ANGELIQUE DE BORDEAUX.— Duh. 
Identification. —Duh. Arb. Fruit, ii. 214. Lindl. Guide, 391. Hort. Soc. Cat. 
ed. 3. p. 122. Jard. Fruit, du Mus. liv. 3. 
Synonymes. —Angelique, Knoop. Pom. 118. St. Martial, Fors. Treat. 177; Mill. 
Diet. n. 77; Switz. Fr. Gard. 128; Gibs. Fr. Gard. 327. Cristalline, Merlet Abrege, 108. 
Gros Franc Real, Acc. Bon. Jard. 1848. 501. Saint Marcel, Ibid. Poire Douce, Mill. 
Angelique de Toulouse, Acc. Jard. Fruit, du Mus. Angelique de Languedoc, Ibid. 
Angelique de Pise, Ibid. Mouille Boqclie d’Hiver, Ibid. Charles Smet, Ibid. Angeli- 
kabirne von Bordeaux, Ditt. Handb. i. 778. Englische von Bordeaux, Christ Handwort. 
174. 
Figures. —Nois. Jard. Fiuit. ed. 2. pi. 84. Duh. Arb. Fr. ii. pi. xlvii. f. 5. Knoop 
Pom. t. vii. Mayer Pom. Franc, fig. 87. Jard. Fruit, du Mus. liv. 3. 
Fruit above medium-sized, 21- to 3 inches wide, and 3 to 31 inches in 
