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this sort, each twelve years old, and growing within five feet of 
each other. They have been pruned and manured exactly alike. 
[ have been to-day to look at them, and I find their blossom-buds 
precisely in the same state—viz., on the point of bursting. I 
have never yet seen the tree on the Quince stock open its blossoms 
a day before its neighbour on the Pear ; but I have observed its 
blossom-buds in mild early springs commence to swell and seem 
ready to burst a week or two before those of the tree on the Pear 
stock; but the blossoming time has been for years as Dearly as 
possible simultaneous. My additional remarks on these two trees 
are as follows : The tree on the Pear stock is larger and stouter 
than its neighbour on the Quince; it makes more vigorous 
shoots, which are much inclined to canker. The treo is indeed, 
although so vigorous, infested with canker in its bearing branches. 
It has never borne any fruit in seasons in which its neighbour 
has failed; but on the contrary it has, in Pear seasons, given 
perhaps a dozen of Pears, green with a slight tinge of red, spotted 
and inclined to be deformed ; while its neighbour has borne from 1 
ten to twelve dozen with clear rinds of a rich rosy red and 
piquant rich flavour. 
I have in like manner trees of Williams's Bon Chretien , some 
on the Pear stock and some on the Quince. The latter in a mild 
February look as if their blossom-buds must burst into bloom 
before those on the Pear stock; but I have never yet observed 
them to do so, and I have never found my trees of this sort on 
the Quince to fail in giving a crop when those on the Pear stock 
have borne: in short, in what are called Pear seasons I have seen 
no difference in them as regards fertility. This sort does not 
canker under any circumstances, and is such an abundant bearer 
on the Pear stock as rarely to require the Quince to give it 
increased fertility. The only advantage gained by grafting it. on 
the Quince—and it is of some importance—is the facility of culti¬ 
vating it as a low bush in gardens. Its large fruit are thus safe 
from high winds, which so often strip a standard tree of its fine 
fruit. 
My third sort is the Jargonelle. This is not quite happy on 
the Quince stock, as it swells over largely at the junction of the 
graft with the stock ; requires a rich moist soil, and to be planted 
so that the earth comes up to the junction, but not so as to cover 
it, otherwise the Pear takes root, grows away at a furious rate, 
and its poor foster-mother the Quince dies. If confined to the 
Quince stock this sort does not canker—as it inevitably does in 
moist soils when on the Pear stock—but bears most abundantly. 
I have noticed this variety more particularly, because, when it is 
grafted on the Quince, its blossom-buds often begin to swell, 
and seem ready to burst even as early as January, but its blos¬ 
soms do not open earlier than those on trees on the Pear stock ; 
and in like manner with the two preceding kinds, I have never 
observed the trees on Quince stocks to fail in bearing, unless 
those of the same kind on Pear stocks have also failed. 
I have thus far given faithfully the result of my observation 
for several years. 
My soil may act on my trees in some manner not yet under¬ 
stood ; it is a sandy clay, full of chalk stones; neither early nor 
late, neither wot nor dry. If on Mr. Errington’s soil Pear trees 
on the Quince stock open their blossoms a week or so before 
the same kinds on tho Pear stock growing as near together as 
mine are, and if by such early blossoming his Quince-stock Pears 
fail, while his Pear-stock Pears bear, it will be very interesting 
to inquire into the cause, and the same with others of your 
numerous correspondents who feel interested in this question. 
The trees to be tested should be of the same kinds, be planted 
near to each other, and have exactly the same culture. 
I fear I am not a very “ knowing person,” but I think I know 
something about Pear culture, and so I will give a list of Pears 
that will not do on the Quince when brought into immediate 
contact with the stock; but every kind of Pear known will 
succeed on it if proper skill be exercised by the cultivator—yes, 
even the Monarch , the most refractory of all, will do so, and soon 
become a fruitful small tree. 
The road to success is very broad and straight, the cultivator 
lias only to bud or graft—a free-growing sort of Pear, such as the 
Beurre d’Amanlis (perhaps one of the best) or Conseiller de la 
Cow —on the Quince, and after it has grown a year or two, to 
graft or bud on the graft or bud of the Beurre d'Amanlis the 
sorts that do not grow freely when in immediate contact with 
the Quince stock. The following list will, I trust, gratify our 
excellent and experienced friend’s wish as expressed at the foot of 
his article, page 59. 
Jn giving thie list of Pears that will not succeed on the Quince 
1 when in immediate contact with it, I must premise that some 
! few of them may do pretty well in very rich and fertile soils; 
but, as a general rule, they are more safe when grafted or budded 
as above described. It is called “ double working ” by nurserymen. 
1 . 
Aston Town 
Autumn Bergamot 
Beadnell’s Seedling 
Brown Beurrd 
5. Beurre Berckmans 
C. Beurre Cluirgeau 
7. Beurre de Capiaumont 
Beurre Bose 
Broom Park 
Bishop’s Thumb 
Beurre de Ranee 
12. Comte de Lamy 
13. Comte de Flandrcs 
14. Doyenne d’Ete 
15. Doyenne d’Alemjon 
16. Duchesse d’Orleans 
17. Eyewood 
Gansel’s Seckle 
4. 
8 . 
9. 
10 . 
11 . 
19. Gansel’s Bergamot 
20. Grosse Calabasse 
21. Hacon’s Incomparable 
22. llessel 
23. lluyshe’s Bergamot 
24. Huyshe’e Victoria 
25. Jargonelle 
26. Marie Louise 
27. Monarch 
28. Ne Plus Meuris 
29. Seckle 
30. Swan’s Egg 
31. Suffolk Thorn 
32. A r an Mons Lfon le Clerc 
33. Zephirin Gregoiro 
34. Zdphirin Louis 
35. Uvedale’s St. Germain 
18. 
The effect of double working on many of these sorts of Pears 
is very remarkable; for, instead of w-aitiug from seven to ten 
years before they commence to bear, they bear well at the end of 
three years. No. 19, from being one of the most shy bearers 
known, becomes remarkably prolific. It is the same with Nos. 
2 and 27 ; No. 26 forms at once the most charming, small, pro¬ 
lific garden tree ever seen ; and it is most probable that 23 and 
24, which are of the same race, will do the same.—B. 
LIME WATER FOR POTTED PLANTS— 
HEATING THE WALTONIAN CASE. 
Is lime water injurious to pot Roses, pot Chrysanthemums, 
&c. ? Are there any plants to which it would be injurious? 
What quantity of lime to a gallon of water ? These questions 
are asked with a view to expel worms from pots. Will liquid 
manure composed of superphosphate of lime have the same effect ? 
and would this kind of liquid manure suit Chrysanthemums in 
pots ? as guano water is thought too heating. 
There has been a good deal said about the Waltouian Case 
lately. “ Rose ” has had one of the earliest made, and she has 
never found any difficulty in keeping up the heat. She has been 
able to get it as high as 95°. It burns from 10 r.M. till 9 or 
10 a.m. without any attention, and “Rose” only dressed it twice 
a-day. Colza oil she believes to be the best. “ Rose ” does not 
think the candles likely to answer as well as the original lamp, 
besides being very much more expensive.— Rose. 
[Lime water is not injurious to any pot plants that we know. 
The strength of lime water is not so much from the quantity of 
lime used as one might think. We have used from 1 lb. to 5 lbs. 
of unslaked lime to the gallon with exactly the same results. 
Superphosphate would benefit the plants, but would not expel 
worms. 
You are quite right about the Waltonian.] 
PROSPECTS OF THE YEAR 1860. 
The unusually long winter which has visited us, and from 
which we have scarcely emerged, has, indeed, stricken much of 
th.e fair produce of our gardens. We had fondly indulged the 
hope, that in consequence of the long-continued severity of the 
weather, we might hope for a better spring, but the spring has 
hitherto (April 29th), paralleled the winter ; and although the 
frosts have not recently had the marked intensity which some¬ 
times characterises them, there has been a cold, cutting, north¬ 
easterly wind, which has during the day, when the coverings 
have been raised, done infinite harm to the tender embryo fruits 
of the Apricot, &o. Let us hope that its time to leave us draws 
near, and that we are on the advent of a glorious summer. 
This is, indeed, a season of the year which has great demands 
upon the painstaking gardener—upon him, I mean, who is not 
satisfied with second-rate performances, but who essays to go 
first, and to keep there. See what a varied claim is now upon 
him for all his supplies. In addition to culinary articles, see 
how great a demand the flower-garden makes at this time, and 
look at the varied means of protection which he must adopt, and 
