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immediately after Louise Bonne of Jersey , which with me has this season been 
particularly fine, both on espaliers and standards. Marie Louise , under similar 
treatment, is also large, russety, and fine. The year 1875 will be long 
remembered in the North of Scotland for its large crops of Pears, and the high 
quality of the fruit.—J. Webster, Gordon Castle. 
LOUISE BONNE D’AVRANCHES PANACHEE PEAR. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
wNE of the most useful of dessert Pears in its Season—October—is the 
Louise Bonne of Jersey , one of the synonyms of which is Louise Bonne 
J'Avranches. Of this excellent Pear, that which we now figure is 
a variety which originated, as Dr. Hogg tells us, in a bud-sport, and 
in consequence of its beautifully marked fruit was distinguished as the 
striped variety ( panachee). A glance at our figure will show its leading 
peculiarity, and will also indicate how desirable it is, that so handsome a 
fruit should be freely cultivated, so as to become a frequent ornament to 
the dessert-table. 
The Striped Louise Bonne , as may indeed be concluded from its origin, is in 
all respects similar to the well-known Louise Bonne of Jersey —or Bonne Louise , 
as some say it should be called. It is a good grower, and a good bearer; it 
succeeds well as a pyramid on the quince stock; it is invariably of good quality 
and flavour ; it may be had for some time in use in the autumn season ; and a 
good sample nicely coloured forms a dish of most tempting fruit for the table, 
and one, moreover, which will bear the test of trial, seeing that its quality equals 
its appearance.—T. Moore. 
THE POLYANTHUS. 
JNDER this heading I intend to treat of the fine old named varieties that 
were once pretty common, but now unhappily very scarce. Here are a 
dozen varieties that twenty years ago were somewhat generally grown :— 
Alexander (Pearson), Beauty of England (Maud), Cheshire Favourite 
(Sanders), Duke of Northumberland (Thompson), Earl of Leicester (Hufton), 
Exile (Cronshaw), George the Fourth (Buck), Highland Mary (Oraiggy), King 
(Nicholson), Kingfisher (Addis), Lord John Russell (Clegg), and Princess Royal 
(Collier). Add to these Bullock’s Lancer and Nicholson’s Bang Europe, and we 
have the cream of the varieties that were grown by the past generation of florists. 
Alas ! how difficult to obtain any of them now. I have Cheshire Favourite. 
Exile, and Lancer, and beyond the possession of these I am not able to get. 
These, with Kingfisher and Beauty of England, put in an appearance at the 
meeting of the National Auricula Society at Manchester, but no one appears 
to have them in quantity. I am afraid that hard propagation has had some¬ 
thing to do with bringing about a certain deterioration of constitution ; and 
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