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little labour or expense, and can be adopted even with the most limited means. 
There is also a great advantage in keeping Verbenas, &c., in cold frames, even 
in places where there is plenty of house room, as they require less watering, 
are much less troubled with green fly, and make stronger and stifler plants, 
and, by their being kept in frames, allow the room which they occupy in the 
house to be given to the “bedding” Geraniums, many of which require a little 
heat, particularly the variegated kinds. 
Stourton. M. Saul. 
THE PEAR AND ITS VARIETIES. 
{Continued from'page 161.) 
ARBRE COURBE.— Van Mons. 
Identification and Figure. —Album de Pom. iii. 155. Jard. Fruit, du Mus. 
liv. 64. 
Synonymes. —Colmar Ckarnay, Acc. Down. Fr. Amer. ed. 3. 452. Amiral, erroneously. 
Pruit large, 3£ inches wide and 4 long, obovate, narrowing towards the 
stalk and the crown. Skin 
rough to the feel, from being 
considerably covered with 
rough scaly russet, on a 
bright green ground. Eye 
small and open, with flat 
spreading segments, and 
placed in a wide and rather 
shallow cavity. Stalk stout, 
three-quarters of an inch to 
an inch long, not depressed, 
but placed on the end of the 
fruit, sometimes with a pro * 
tuberance on one side of it. 
Flesh greenish immediately 
under the skin, fine-grained, 
half buttery, melting, and 
juicy; briskly-flavoured, but 
without much aroma. 
A good dessert Pear, but 
hardly of first-rate quality. 
It is ripe in the end of Sep¬ 
tember, and continues during 
October. 
The tree does not attain 
a large size, but is very pro¬ 
ductive, and succeeds well 
as a standard. It is said to 
have been raised by Pro¬ 
fessor Van Mons about the 
year 1830, and received its 
name from the circumstance of the stem inclining to grow in a horizontal 
manner, and requiring the aid of a stake to keep it upright; but, according to 
M. Lesueur’s statement, which we extract from M. Decaisne’s Jar din Fruitier 
du Museum, it is not a seedling of Van Mons, but was raised by M. Leon le 
Clerc, and propagated by Van Mons in 1833. 
Arbre Courbe. 
