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melting, very juicy, sugary, vinous, and with a delicious 
perfume. 
An excellent early pear. Ripe in the middle and end 
of August. 
Peche. See Teach. 
Pengthley. —Fruit medium sized, obovate, inclining 
to oval. Skin pale green, covered with dark dots, and 
becoming yellow as it ripens. Eye large and open, set in 
a shallow depression. Stalk long and slender, curved, 
and set in an uneven cavity. Flesh coarse-grained, crisp, 
very juicy and sweet. Ripe in March. 
Perdreau. See Early Itousselet. 
Perdreau Musque. See Early Itousselet. 
Petit Beurre d’Hiver. See Bezi de Caissoy. 
Petit Muscat ( Little Muscat; Sept-en-gueule). —Fruit 
very small, produced in clusters, turbinate. Skin bright 
yellow when ripe, and covered with brownish-red next 
the sun, and strewed with russet dots. Eye open, not 
depressed. Stalk about an inch long, not depressed* 
Flesh melting, sweet, juicy, and with a musky flavour. 
A very early pear. Ripe in the end of July. 
Petit St. Jean. See Amire Joannet. 
De Pezcnas. See Duchesse d’Angouleme. 
(To be continued.) 
TRITOMA TJVARIA—PLANTS HARDY AT 
DUNDEE. 
As Mr. Deaton has so fully treated of the culture of this plant 
by division of the root, may I beg the favour of a word as to its 
propagation by seed ? I ask this on account of those who, like 
myself, may he out of hail of the London nurserymen, and 9s. 
per dozen. For be it known that, primed with that information, 
I marched boldly into a local nursery the other day, and asked 
their figure for some small plants, and had my breath taken away 
by the answer—half-a-crown a-piece! They told me, too, that 
nine out of every ten in the market (own stock, of course, ex¬ 
cepted), were not true uv arias, but JBurchellis, medias, or other 
spurious varieties. Now, if the uvaria could only be raised good 
and true from seed, then we out-of-the-way provincials might 
hope to go in and win with the metropolitans. 
[Run up along the Carse of Gowrie, and get the true uvaria in 
the Kinoul Nurseries at Perth, where everything is sold true to 
name and not above the London prices. It was there in the 
“lower grounds” where Mr. Deaton first learned the true value 
of Tritoma uvaria; but no seeds of it can bo had for love or 
money in London.] 
As illustrating the differences of climate, and perhaps the 
mistaken notions that prevail as to the hardiness of some plants, 
I may ment ion that here, at the mouth of the Tay, I have in the 
open ground, without the slightest protection, the Myrsine Afri- 
cana and Fabiana imbricata. They were not in the least touched 
by the sudden and severe October frost; though I find them put 
down in The Cottage Gardeners'' Dictionary as greenhouse plants, 
requiring a winter temperature of 40° to 48°. Mitraria coccinea 
on a wall touched slightly. Chrysanthemums in border and on 
south wall entirely cut down ; but on east and west walls un¬ 
touched, and now in full bloom.— Mac. 
[Very remarkable. Dut then, the mouth of the Tay at the end 
of the Carse lies so warm and sheltered, by the kingdom of Fife 
on the one side, and the end and flank of the back bone of the 
Grampians on the other—the colder side—that no other inlet on 
the coast is one-half as warm till we reach the mouth of the 
Orwell at Harwich; and the latter is Greenland itself as compared 
with “ Donny Dundee.” 
GRAFTING ROSES-SOWING TRITOMA 
UYARIA. 
I will say my say, and TnE Cottage Gardener can do what 
they please with it. I want somo information, and I am not too 
proud to ask for it. It really was a lucky thing that I had been 
full six feet in height for a long time before I read Mr. Deaton’s 
observations on my Rose grafting, else in that growing weather 
I might have shot up a few inches easily. However, I am happy 
to say, no harm was done. Mr. Deaton is quite right about the 
grafts rooting ; but I think it will be found to be mainly in the 
second year. Some few of my grafts of this year made shoots 
four feet long, and had abundance of Roses ; but, of course, they 
were the free growers only. The beds were not formed last year 
at this time, and now I have them all filled with Rose trees, 595 
in number. I grafted fifty in March, 1858, and I moved them 
last week. They were all Hybrid Perpetuals, and they are now 
all rooted from the grafts, and can do without any aid from the 
stocks whatever. I may just say, that in all my failures I have 
found that I have not been near enough to the root of the stock, 
and the graft has not been planted deep enough. The result is 
obvious—drought killled them. 
I now want Mr. Deaton to be so kind as to tell me how to 
manage to raise Tritoma uvaria from seed. I have been making 
a bed in which I have put one male and one female plant of 
Pampas Grass, twelve feet from each other, I allowed three feet 
more for a row of Tritoma uvaria; but now comes the pinch. I 
can only afford to buy four roots this season. These I can divide, 
but as I suppose they should not be more than from fifteen to 
eighteen inches apart, I shall want fifty at least. Now, if I cannot 
afford to buy, I can afford to-wait with patience, if I can do 
anything with seed. This is the point 1 wish to have Mr. 
Deaton’s advice about. If I get four roots, and make of them—say 
fifteen or sixteen for this year, divide them the next year, will 
that be better than sowing seed? I doubt not but many will be 
anxious to see the answer, as well as myself. Still I think, if 
they will flower from seed in any reasonable time, I should like 
to try.— W. P. Ruddock. 
[“It l’eallywas,” as you say, “a lucky thing,” that life, which 
is but a span, should have been extended to “ full six feet ” in 
your person, ere you could have heard of how much good your 
experiments in grafting Roses were likely to do, for all degrees 
and sizes of your fellow readers of The Cottage Gardener, 
as a few more inches might, possibly, raise you higher than the 
point from which useful information generally comes down to us, 
free from the mystic lore of some conventional craft or another. 
And we accept with all thankfulness, this, your account of the 
turn which we anticipated the experiment would take, from 
your practical good sense of grafting the Roses, at the right end 
of the stock—to wit, the bottom end. A rectory gardener of our 
acquaintance remarks, when anything goes wrong in the parish, 
that “ it was no wonder, seeing the whole thing was like grafting 
at the wrong end of the stock.” 
Tritoma uvaria seeds are not yet in the market, and are not 
likely to be for some years to come, and at the end of those years 
there will be no more demand for the seeds than there has been for 
the plant itself for the last thirty years. No seeds of it ripened at 
ICew last year, and nowhere else that we can hear of in England; 
but in some parts of Ireland seeds usually ripen every year.] 
MEETING of the ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
The November meeting of the Entomological Society was held 
on the 7th inst.., when the chair was occupied by the President, 
Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c. 
Donations to the Society’s Library were announced from the 
Natural History Society of Moscow, the Literary and Philo¬ 
sophical Society of Liverpool, the Entomological Society of 
Stettin, the Society of Arts, &c. 
Mr. G. R. "Waterhouse exhibited on behalf of Dr. Power 
Donacia obscura and Thilonthus fuscus —two Deetlcs not pre¬ 
viously known as natives of this country. Likewise on his own 
account two new species of Mordella, and one of each of the 
genera Tachinus and Dyturus new to this country. He also 
stated that he had ascertained that a malformed specimen of the 
common Mealworm Deetle, Tenebrio mollitor, had been described 
by the late Mr. Stephens as a distinct species under the name of 
Tenebrio laticollis. The specimen is now in the British Museum, 
taken with the whole of Mr. Stephens’s collection. 
Professor Syme, of Edinburgh, exhibited a drawing of the 
caterpillar of Sphynx convolvuli; also a specimen of the pale 
variety of Colias cdusa from the neighbourhood of Deal. 
Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a scries of rare Coleoptera 
recently captured in Brazil by Mr. Squires. And Mr. Trirnen 
a number of rare species belonging to the same order which he 
had taken in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Mr. Ianson exhibited two new species of British Coleoptera, 
recently captured by him, belonging to the genera Hydx’ochus 
and Mycetophagus. 
