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growth, the branches rather pendent, and very productive. Bezi Mai is a fine 
Pear, and keeps well; the tree is of a strong habit of growth. Louise Bonne dt 
Printemps is a showy, nice Pear of medium size ; the tree is of free growth. 
LLnconnue is rather a small Pear, but promises to keep well, and is a free bearer. 
Among Pears better known than the foregoing, Bellissime d'Hirer and Leon 
Leclerc de LmvclI are well worth introducing to every collection; they are both 
large handsome Pears, and keep well. Bellissime d’Hiver forms a stiff, upright 
tree ; Leon Leclerc de Laval is of free growth, and very productive. The fore¬ 
going all do well as pyramids, and should have a place in every garden.— 
M. Saul, Stourton. 
SOUVENIR DU CONGRFIS PEAR. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
S HIS remarkably fine French Pear was raised by M. Morel, and appears to 
have been a seedling from Williams’s Bon Chretien , which it resembles in 
f some respects. The tree makes a fine and prolific pyramid. We have to 
thank both Mr. Dancer, of Chiswick, and Messrs. Bivers and Son, of 
Sawbridgeworth, for specimens for figuring, the latter, received after our drawing 
was completed, being the largest, as well as the best in quality, and measuring 
about 10 in. in circumference. 
The fruit is large, obovate or bluntly oblong-pyriform, with an uneven lumpy 
or slightly furrowed surface ; stalk oblique, stout, set on with scarcely any de¬ 
pression, its base surrounded by a patch of russet; eye small, nearly closed, set 
in a moderately deep russety hollow ; skin clear yellow where shaded, flushed and 
indistinctly streaked and blotched with bright cherry-red on the exposed side. 
Flesh white, fine-grained, very juicy and melting, with a brisk vinous flavour 
and agreeable aroma. The tenderness and juiciness of the flesh are very re¬ 
markable, and the fruit is very handsome. Mr. Dancer’s fruit, tasted on August 
19, was scarcely up to the mark in flavour; and we notice that some of the 
Continental growers regard it as only second-rate ; but a better-ripened sample 
from Messrs. Bivers, tasted on September 3, proved to be excellent.—T. Moore. 
NEW PEAS. 
f BESUMINGr this to be a suitable time for making a few remarks upon the 
merits of some of the numerous sorts now in cultivation, I send you these 
¥ notes by way of helping a beginner in making a selection. There are 
so many new sorts brought out annually as improvements, and which but 
very few gardeners know anything about, that the long and swelled-out lists of 
names are becoming quite perplexing. On the other hand, it cannot be otherwise 
than troublesome and annoying to seed-producers and to the trade generally, to 
be obliged to keep in hand sorts which are but little, if at all, wanted ; and 
inasmuch as less than half the number of sorts would serve all ends and purposes, 
the older and inferior ones might very well be discarded, 
