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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ December, 
seriously, for elevated sites, to hang and grow amongst prominent boulders or 
projections of rock-work, having such characteristics as I describe, no better 
subject exists. 
There is something very unsatisfactory about the name of this plant, and the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle^ to which we look as an authority, has but thickened this 
modern mist. Why put it, Pyrus Cydonia Maulei ”? The plant has either a 
legitimate right to the name Cydonia, or it has not. Cannot the subject be 
further discussed and settled once for all?— ^William Earley, Valentines. 
Our correspondent does not quite realise the facts. Our best botanists 
now put all these plants in the genus Pyrus. Of this, Cydonia is scarcely regarded 
as a section by some, but is admitted to this rank by others. Hence the formula 
Pyrus (Cydonia) Maulei, which means genus Pyrus, section Cydonia, species 
Maulei. As the sectional name indicates the more exact affinity of the plant, 
doubtless the garden name will, for brevity’s sake, be found to lapse into Cydonia 
Maulei. We shall publish a plate of this fine novelty shortly, illustrating both 
flowers and fruit.— Ed. 
GAEDEN GOSSIP. 
HE Pelargonium Society., which has just been established for promoting the 
culture of this flower, and in the hope of bringing forward some novelties 
by means of hybridisation, has announced the following prizes to be com¬ 
peted for at the Zonal Pelargonium Show of the Eoyal Horticultural 
Society, to be held at South Kensington on Wednesday, July 21st, 1875; while its First 
Annual Meeting is to be held on the day following, at Chiswick. Some 40 members have 
joined. The competition will take place at South Kensington, by permission of the Royal 
Horticultural Society. The following are the Prizes :— 
Class I.—12 Distinct Varieties of ZONAL Pelargoniums, “Florists’ Class,” in pots of Sin. in diameter. 
(Open.) £8, £5. (For varieties with finely-shaped fiowers, after the florists’ model.) 
Class II.—12 Distinct Varieties of ZONAL Pelargoniums, “ Decorative Class,” in pots of 8-in. in diameter. 
(Open.) £8, £5. (For the profuse-flowering showy varieties, known as Hybrid Nosegays.) 
Class III.— 30 Distinct Varieties of ZONAL Pelargoniums, “ irrespective of Class,” in pots not exceeding 
6 in. in diameter. (Open.) £6, £4. 
Class IV.—6 Ornamental Cape Pelargoniums, dissimilar. (Open.) £3, £2. 
Class V.—Best Hybrid Pelargonium, of distinct character. (Open.) £2, £1. 
Class VI.—24 Pelargoniums, cut blooms, single trusses, dissimilar. (Open.) £2, £1. 
Class VII.—12 Pelargoniums, cut blooms, single trusses, dissimilar. (Amateurs.) £2, £1. 
The Judges may also in their discretion, and subject to the approval of the Committee, award a prize 
to any exhibit worthy of particular notice, which may not be provided for in the Schedule. It is an impera¬ 
tive condition that every Variety exhibited shall have conspicuously appended to it its own Name, together 
with that of the Raiser, such names to be either printed or distinctly written on a card; and the “ Chiswick 
standard” is to be adopted in regulating the sizes of the pots. 
- ®HE specimens of Uvedalds St. Germain Pears wbicb were exhibited at 
South Kensington on the 11th ult., by the Eev. T. 0. Brehaut, constitute something 
like an epoch in Pear-culture. They were all grown on one single tree, and that 
tree, a single cordon, occupying a w;all-spaco of under 40 square feet, produced in 1872 six 
first-prize Pears. “ The six 1874 Pears,” writes Mr. Brdhaut to the Gardeners' Chronicle, “to¬ 
gether weighed an ounce or so under 20 lb. when gathered from the tree ; but being voiy wot, 
some one or other induced mo to dry them up in a warm greenhouse, by which absurd pro¬ 
ceeding they lost 2 oz. very rapidly. It is worthy of remark that it was the largest Pear of 
all, which weighed all but 5 lb. when fresh gathered, which diminished the most, so that 
now it weighs 2 oz. less than 5 lb. As it is nearly 20 in. round (one measurement gave 20 in. 
and another 19^ in.), I submit to the judges of English fruit whether they have ever seen 
such a Pear or not ? I intend writing to ask some who know in Franco and Belgium, but I 
myself think it unapproachable as to size. Of course, the Pear required much care to grow 
