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274 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 3, 1858. 
available spot with a fruit tree of one kind or other, and have 
had no reason to complain of my want of success. By the 
bye, I w'ould recommend to all owners of factories, in suitable 
localities, to do as I have done. There is nothing about the 
place which I am more proud of showing to visitors than my 
mill windows, filled with fine fruits—Pears, Plums, Apricots, 
and Cherries; for, although these windows are never fastened, 
there is never one stolen, which says a great deal for the 
honesty and good feeling of the people. The fact is, if you 
trust work-people, you make them trustworthy ; if you treat 
them as if they were rogues, you go far towards making 
them so. 
I am, however, forgetting what I sat down to write about, 
which was the sort of Pears suitable for this part of Lanca¬ 
shire :— 
Of the Jargonelle , as every one knows it, I say nothing 
more. 
The Summer Hose. —A Pear exceedingly like an Apple in 
shape; ripe at the end of August; a great bearer; with a 
crisp flesh, and pleasant flavour, if not allowed to become 
too ripe. 
Hessel (or Uazle ) Pear.—Ripe in September. A hardy 
tree, and great bearer, but apt to get mealy when grown against 
a wall. Better on a standard, and still better if grafted on a 
Thorn stock. 
Summer Bon Chretien (or Catherine') Pear.—Ripe in August; 
tolerable bearer; with a crisp and pleasant flavour. Better 
on a standard than a wall. 
Yat. —Good bearer; ripe in September; bears well as a 
standard. Good second quality. 
Beurre cle Capiaumont. —The most fertile bearer I have; 
never failing to have a crop, except when it has been exhausted 
by over-cropping the year before; and of first-rate quality, 
when properly treated after gathering. If it be taken into a 
cool fruit-room, and kept there with an idea that by that 
means you will extend the season of maturation, it becomes 
turnipy, and never acquires any flavour; but if, when gathered, 
it is immediately hung up in a warm room (not below the 
temperature of 60° .Fahrenheit), it acquires a high flavour, 
and becomes one mass of juice. To extend its season, I gather 
half my crop the last week in September, and the other half 
two or three weeks later. I ought, however, to observe, that the 
fruit, when maturing, requires frequent and careful examina¬ 
tion, and should be eaten as soon as it yields readily to the 
pressure of the thumb, for it will not keep more than a few 
days longer when it has arrived at this stage. 
Louise Bonne cle Jersey.— Ripe about the same time as the 
Capiaumont. A great and constant bearer against a wall; 
the fruit large, melting, and excellent. With me it cankers 
as a standard tree; but I have not tried it on a Quince stock, 
upon which, I am told, it succeeds much better than on the 
Pear. 
Beurre de Bose. —Ripe in October; fine fruit, but only a 
middling bearer, and the quality only second-rate, in my esti¬ 
mation, as it never becomes melting. 
Dunmore. —Good bearer,both on the wall and on a standard; 
very variable in quality, but often of first-rate excellence; ripe 
the end of September. 
Brown Beurre. —Not worth cultivation, as it never pro¬ 
duces a crop. The same may bo said of the Aston Town and 
Chaumontel , the latter of which is here of very indifferent 
quality; as well as the Crassane. 
Marie Lotcise.- —The best Pear I know; rather shy as a 
bearer; but some observations I have made induce me to 
think that its fertility may be increased. I have several trees 
of this kind, but one which has been grafted upon a Green 
Chisel bears much better than any of the others, although 
they grow on the same wall, and I find that this increase of 
fertility is produced in other kinds, besides the Marie Louise , 
when they are grafted on the Green Chisel. This applies 
particularly to the Forelle , which I have not been able to 
fruit as I could wish on any other stock. On the Green 
Chisel it bears well, and is an excellent Pear. Ripe in 
November. 
The Moor-f owl Bgg. — Exceedingly like the old Swan's 
^99 > quality first-rate. A hardy bearer when it blooms ; but 
does not bloom freely here. It is a month earlier than the 
Swan's Bgg. 
SecJcel. A small Pear, very hardy, free bearer, producing 
its fruit in clusters ; quality first-rate ; but when arrived at < 
maturity it will not keep more than a few days, if gathered. 
I, however, prolong its season by allowing it to hang on the 
tree, which it will do after the leaves have fallen, and until it . 
is exposed to the frost. 
Basse Colmar. —Hardy bearer; does not bloom as freely 
with me as I could wish, but when it does, the fruit sets well; 
quality first-rate; high flavoured and melting; ripe, Novem¬ 
ber and December. 
Napoleon. —An excellent Pear; tolerable bearer; but neither ! 
so good in quality nor so good a bearer as the Capiaumont or i 
Louise Bonne de Jersey. 
Glout Morceau. —A free bearer, and a good Pear in Decem¬ 
ber and January. It has, however, although perfectly melt¬ 
ing, a tendency to what (for want of a better term) I call a 
turnipy flavour. 
JDuchesse cl'Angouleme. —An indifferent bearer, and of very 
ordinary quality; not worth growing, although a large, fine- 
looking Pear. The same remarks applies to Williams' Sum¬ 
mer Bon Chretien , the Flemish Beauty, and Beurre Biel. 
Faster Beurre. —An excellent bearer; ripe from January 
to March ; but the quality is not so good with me as I find it 
represented in the published accounts I have read. 
Bexirre Ranee. —A great bearer with me, and of first-rate 
quality from an east wall. I have, however, found great 
difficulty in bringing it to a state of perfection. When I first 
grew it, I hung it up, as I did my autumnal Pears, in a warm 
room, but it dried up without becoming melting. I then put 
my stock in a large earthenware jar, or mug, and kept them 
covered up, to prevent evaporation. On looking at them in 
about a month, I found them all rotten. The year after I 
again enclosed them in the jar, still keeping them in a warm 
room; but at the end of every week they were carefully taken 
out, and spread on the floor. After being carefully freed from 
the moisture, which had condensed upon them during the 
week, they became high flavoured and perfectly melting by 
this treatment, which 1 still adopt, although it does not 
enable me to prolong the season of eating far into the new 
year, as seems to be done by some of the growers of this 
variety. But whilst the Beurre Ranee is so good with me, 
some of my friends in Wharfdale find it utterly worthless; 
but theirs is a dry alluvial soil; whereas mine is a stiff, 
obdurate clay, very little better than a bed of puddle. 
On reading over what I have written, I find that I have 
omitted from the list Thompson's Bear; ripe in November; 
bears well against an cast wall; variable in quality, but gene¬ 
rally first-rate. 
In the above list I have only detailed my own experience 
and my own opinions as to quality, which, for aught I know, 
may be quite at variance with the tastes of many other 
persons. 
P.S. You will observe, I have mentioned some that I have 
found bad, and unsuited for this part of Lancashire, as it may 
enable persons to avoid a waste of time which would be in¬ 
curred by planting them, particularly as some of them are in 
great repute. 
I would send you a list of Apples, but think I have said 
enough for the present.— Thomas Gamett, Clitheroe. 
[We shall be much obliged by the list of Apples ; 
and further obliged by a statement of the soil; whether 
lowly or highly situated; and on what aspects the 
Pears grow.] 
The Cabbage Blight. —We regret to observe that a 
species of fly is making extensive ravages among all plants 
of the Cabbage tribe in the gardens around Goulburn. These 
insects resemble the aphis, which infects the tops of Windsor 
and Broad Beans in England. In a very short time they 
change into flies, which in their turn produce fresh colonies 
of the aphis; propagation going on with a rapidity which 
appears to defy all means yet adopted for the extirpation of 
these, destructive pests. We have seen several gardens in ! 
this vicinity in which fine beds of Cabbages, Cauliflowers, and 
other plants of a like nature, have been rendered quite use¬ 
less ; and we are assured that one gardener alone will suffer 
a loss of £50 this season from the Cabbage blight. If any of , 
our readers be aware of a remedy, they would confer a benefit | 
by making it known ,—Goulburn Chronicle (Australia), 
