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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, November 3, 1857. 
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| Brown Beurre, and Beurre Bailee, Glout Morceau , Passe 
Colmar , Ne Plus Meuris, Old Colmar , Winter Nells, and 
! Poire d' Audi. 
But Mr. Sorley took the first prize for the collection 
of sixes with Marie Louise, Beurre Biel, Broun Beurre, 
Winter Nells , Easter Beurre, and Glout Morceau. The 
second, Mr. Wood, gardener to R. Scott Murray, Esq., 
Danesfield, Great Marlow. He had three ripe kinds— 
Van Mons Leon le Clerc, Beurre Biel, and Duchesse 
d'Angouleme, and the rest equally fine. Mr. Fowle 
followed, having two dishes ripe out of the six, Marie 
Louise and Glout Morceau. Mr. Snow had in his 
twelve a second dish of Forell-e, Glout Morceau, Marie 
Louise, Winter Nelis, Old Colmar, Crasanne, Passe Col¬ 
mar, Beurre Biel, Easter Beurre, and Beurre Ranee. 
In Mr. Whiting’s (ofDeepdene) collection six kinds were 
ripe— Beurre Bose, Buchesse d'Angouleme, Marie Louise , 
Beurre Did, Croft Castle, and Strohden Court. Mr. 
Frost, gardener to E. L. Betts, Esq., Preston Hall, 
Maidstone, had five dishes ripe— Buchesse d’Angouleme, 
Van Mons, Colmar, Eliza Heyest, and Colmar Des- 
champs. 
Mr. Hope, gardener, West Ham, had five kinds ripe as 
above. Messrs. Lane and Son, the great Rose growers, had 
a fine collection of new Pears. Mr. Spivey, Hollingbury 
Gardens, had six kinds ripe. Mr. Carmichael, gardener 
to the Countess Dunmore, had four kinds ripe. Mr. 
Selkirk, gardener to W. F. Yeyes, Esq., three kinds ripe. 
Mr. Chester the same. Mr. Anderson, Oxenford Castle, 
Lothians, had a dozen fine kinds, the best from Scot¬ 
land, and many others in the same superior style. 
The competitors with collections of sixes were equally 
numerous, and their fruit was equally good, but not 
much different from the kinds already mentioned. Mr. 
Cox, gardener to W. Wells, Esq., of Redleaf, had a 
splendid sample of one of our handsomest Pears, the 
Beurre Clairgeau. Mr. Carmichael, gardener to the 
Countess Dunmore, had the best Napoleon there. Mr. 
Hope, gardener to Miss Gurney, West Ham, Essex, 
had the best Louise Bonne of Jersey. 
Mr. Tillyard, Mr. Fowle, and Mr. Snow took the first, 
second, and third prizes with single dishes of Pears; 
that from Mr. Fowle was Marie Louise from a standard. 
There was a fine dish of the Duchesse d'Angouleme from 
Mr. Brown, Rockingham Castle; ditto Beurre Bose, from 
Mr. Ingram, gardener to J. J. Blandy, Esq.; ditto Doy- 
. enne Gris, from Mr. Snow; a fine large light-coloured 
Pear, named Hilton Seedling, from Mr. Hilton, gardener 
to J. N. Hibbert, Esq., Chafford Park, Bucks. 
The kitchen Pears were magnificent. Mr. Ingram 
and Mr. Snow had Wradels; Warden from Mr. Frost; 
Gratiole from the Messrs. Lane; a ripe Catillac Gros, 
Mr. Hilton. The rest were more common. 
In a collection of twelve Pears from Mr. Hovey, 
nurseryman, Boston, United States, nine were ripe or 
i too far gone. Seclde was quite gone, but the skin was 
sound. His Beurre Clairgeau was about one-half the 
size of that from Mr. Cox, of Redleaf, but was much 
redder on the side next the sun. His Beurre Bose came 
the nearest to ours; his Duchesse d'Angouleme about 
half the size of ours in England; and so was his Van 
Mons Leon le Clerc, and his Glout Morceau was almost 
round, and like a stinted English growth. The rest 
were Swans Orange, Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre Gris 
d'Hirer, Beurre Superfin (said to be the finest of all Pears 
when “ caught in time),” Paradise of Autumn, and Passe 
Colmar. 
Mr. Solomons, of Covent Garden, took the first prize 
i for twelve kinds of French Pears, and they were very 
i fine. Those from Nantes were not one-fourth so good ; 
but some of the names were not correct, as Magnifique 
for Beurre Biel; Gelogine for Gilogil , a good kitchen 
Pear ; Belle Andrine for Vicar of Winkfeld, and so forth. 
Covent Garden, therefore, is not the best authority for 
such names. In Mr. Solomons’ collection of sixes Glout 
Morceau, Winter Nelis^ Brown Beurre, Marie Louise, 
and Duchesse d'Angouleme, were much on a par with 
those of Mr. Ingram, of our Royal Gardens. 
Mr. Hovey’s sixes were Marie Louise, quite russety ; 
Gustave Burgoyne, much gone; Edwards's Elizabeth, a 
very small round Pear; Poiteau, small greenish Pear; 
Sheldon, a small, round, russety Pear; Winter Nelis, 
very russety; Louise Bonne of Jersey, half the size of 
ours; Colmar d'Aremberg, his largest, in the way of 
Duchesse d'Angouleme. His single dishes were Seclde, 
gone, and halt the size ot ours; Beurre Langilier, me¬ 
dium size ; and Urbaniste, fair specimens. Among his 
American Apples were Rhode Island Greening, hard as 
fate ; Porter, a whitish oval kind ; Northern Sweet, hard, 
but as sweet as sugar; Cogswell, a good-looking, small- 
streaked fruit; Baldwin, which had a first prize, is not 
unlike our Norfolk Beaufin; and Ressbury Russet, which 
reminds me of the Messrs. Rollisson’s Rex Begonia, 
which was there also. 
English Apples. —Single dishes of kitchen sorts, 
first prize, Mr. Frost, Preston Hall, for Dumeloivs 
Seedling, splendid fruit. Second prize, Air. Whiting, 
Deepdene, Bedfordshire Fakndling. (Oh, what a glorious 
dumpling it would make!) Third prize, Air. Wells, 
Holme Lacy (is this Holme Lacy near Hereford ?), with 
Blenheim Pippin. 
Dessert Apples. —Best single dish, Mr. Simpson, 
gardener to Lady Molyneux, Stoke Farm, Slough, with 
Cox's Orange Pippin, beating the Ribston Pippin by 
one whole length ; second prize, Air. Hope, gardener to 
Miss Gurney, West Flam, Essex, with Ribston Pippin; 
and third prize to Air. Brown, Rockingham Castle, with 
WyJten Pippin, and also to Mr. Carmichael, gardener to 
the Countess of Dunmore. 
The next grand trial of strength was for twelve kinds 
of dessert Apples, and Air. Snow was first; Mr. Ingram, 
Royal Gardens, second; and Air. Cox, Redleaf, third. 
Never was there such a race at Ascot. Air. Snow 
mounted his favourite Apple, Golden Noble, at the head 
of his lot; then Normanton Pippin, Selina, Old Golden 
Pippin, Court Pendu Plat, Blenheim Pippin, Hanwell, 
Royal Russet, Spanish Pear main. Bull's Golden Reinette, 
Scarlet Nonpareil, and Fearns Pippin. 
Mr. Ingram had Cox's Orange Pippin, Scarlet Russet, I 
Syhehouse Russet, Ream's Pippin, Scarlet Nonpareil, 
Blenheim Pippin, Jefferson, Small's Golden Pippin, Rose- j 
many Russet, Old Nonpareil, King of Pippins, and 
Taylor's Seedling. 
Mr. Cox had Blenheim Orange or Pippin, fine, King of 
Pippins, Alexander, Old Nonpareil, Ribston Pippin, 
Claude's Northern Greening, Yorkshire Greening, Golden 
Knob, Norfolk Paradise, and Winter Queening. Then 
followed Mr. Harrisop, Oatlands; Mr. Figg, Roe- 
hampton; Mr. Parsons, Danesbury, Nelwyn, Herts; 
Air. Divers, Staplehurst, Kent; Messrs. Lane, Berk- 
hampstead; the Horticultural Society; Messrs. Mortimer, 
Wood, Saul, Spivey, Newton, Frost, Whitby, Fox, and 
others, all with collections of twelve kinds of dishes of 
dessert Apples. 
Pine Apples in one row down the centre of one of 
the long tables, besides a lot of flank ones in the col¬ 
lections of Mr. Solomons and Mr. Webber, of Covent 
Garden; the latter took the first prize, and the other 
the second, for collections of the different kinds of fruit. 
Mr. Spencer, of Bowood Gardens, took the first prize for 
the best three Pines—not weighed or named; Mr. Page, 
gardener to W. Leaf, Esq., Park Hill, Streatham, second 
prize, with Emil, 6^ lbs.; Globe, lbs.; and Queen, 
4^-lbs.; and third, Air. Bray, Peak Gardens, Sidmouth, 
two of which were Cayenne Pines; and Air. Ogle and 
others were much commended. For single specimens, 
first, Mr. Temple, gardener to G. S. Clark, Esq., 
Dowlais House, Glamorgan, a Queen Pine, G lbs. 6 ozs.; 
