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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
the Roses are grown here on a light sandy soil, the subsoil a red sand; this is 
not much like a Rose soil, but I stir this to a good depth, and manure it well, 
principally with rotten leaves, so that the above results are not obtained 
through having a good loamy soil and pig manure. I bud mostly on the Dog 
Rose, but the Manetti stock I find does well with me. Some of the buds put 
in last year are now 5 feet high, and thick enough for a walking-stick. The 
more I get acquainted with this stock, the better I like it to grow some of the 
best Roses on it. 
Elsenham Hall Gardens. William Plester. 
THE PEAR AND ITS VARIETIES. 
{Continued from page 232.) 
BELMONT.— Knight. 
Identification.— Knight in Ilort. Trans. 2. Ser. i. 106. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. 
n. 28. Down. Fr. Amer. 353. 
Fruit medium-sized, roundish oval, even and regularly shaped, with some¬ 
what of the form of a Swan’s 
Eo'cr 
Skin rather rough to the 
Belmont. 
Mr. T. A. Knight, of Downton Castle. 
feel, being covered with a coat¬ 
ing of somewhat rough russet, 
which extends over the whole 
surface of the fruit, with the 
exception of the shaded side, 
where it is greenish yellow, 
and considerably covered with 
patches and dots of dark brown 
russet. On the side next the sun 
the brown russet has a coppery 
red glow, and some faint traces 
of crimson mottles and streaks 
shining through. Eye rather 
small and open, destitute of seg¬ 
ments, and set on a level with 
the surface. Stalk an inch long, 
rather slender, inserted in a 
small, narrow, shallow cavity. 
Flesh yellowish, rather coarse¬ 
grained and gritty, sugary,vinous, 
and with a fine Swan’s Egg 
flavour. 
An excellent Pear, almost of 
first-rate quality, ripe in the end 
of October and beginning of 
November. It was raised by 
BEN VIE.— Gorrie. 
Identification.— Gorrie in Hort. Trans, vii. 300. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. p. 124. 
Fruit small, 2 inches long and If wide, obovate. Skin yellowish green, 
sometimes tinged and strewed with dull dingy red on the side next the sun, 
