1883.] 
PEAR BEURRE d’aMANLIS PANACHEE.-ANEMONES AS ANNUALS. 
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Many kind of Plums, as the Victoria, Kirke’s, 
Jefferson, Green Gage, and many others, suc¬ 
ceed admirably on north walls. Such sorts as 
are late in ripening, as the Washington, should 
not, however, be planted against a north wall. 
Plum-trees on north walls sometimes bear 
heavy crops of fruit when others on more 
forward aspects produce hut little, for being 
later in coming into bloom they often escape 
the severe frosts in spring. The fruit from 
trees on north walls prolongs the season, as 
they are later in ripening and hang longer. 
The wasps, moreover, do not attack them so 
soon as they do those on other aspects.—M. 
Saul, Stourton Castle, Yorkshire. 
PEAR BEURRE D’AMANLIS 
PANACHEE. 
[Plate 578.] 
f MONGST Pears there are few that have 
secured a better reputation than has 
been accorded to the Beurre d’Amanlis. 
It is large, handsome in appearance, 
and of fair quality ; it comes into use amongst 
the earlier varieties in September, and at that 
season has no equal; and it is an almost 
certain cropper. Very rarely indeed does a 
season pass without a crop of Beurre d’Amanlis; 
consequently it has found much favour with 
the market growers. Mr. Dancer, of Chiswick, 
grows it extensively—a pretty good criterion 
of its worth—and finds it to be one of the 
most profitable sorts. The tree is a very free 
and somewhat strong grower, and succeeds 
well on the Quince—so well indeed, that it is 
used as the intermediate stock for those 
varieties that do not themselves take freely 
on the Quince. 
The subject of our notice is the striped 
[panachee) form of the good Beurre d’Amanlis. 
It is in every respect the same, excepting that 
it is far more beautiful; the broad bands or 
streaks of yellow and rosy orange, so well 
shown on the plate, are exceedingly charming 
and pretty. This variegation is not uncom¬ 
mon, every fruit being more or less marked, 
and remaining so until quite ripe. It is ex¬ 
ceedingly handsome for the exhibition or 
dinner-table, and should be grown in pre¬ 
ference to the ordinary form. Portions of the 
young shoots are frequently striped in the same 
manner ; very rarely the leaves. The speci¬ 
mens figured are somewhat smaller than 
ordinary, and the leaves much smaller. It is 
grown at Chiswick.—A. F. B. 
ANEMONES AS ANNUALS. 
§§ HERE is at least one species of Anemone 
which succeeds thoroughly well when 
grown as a hardy annual. Near the 
sea, and on rich light soils in upland 
localities, A. coronaria, the Crown Anemone 
as it is sometimes called, succeeds perfectly 
when its seed is sown in March, or even as 
late as the middle of April. We are now, 
November 8th, gathering beautiful flowers and 
buds from beds of seedlings sown on April 3rd 
of the current year. 
All Anemones like deep rich sandy soil, and 
when manurial stimulants are resorted to, 
cow-dung is the thing that Anemones most 
enjoy. In some gardens where the Anemone 
would never succeed, we have recommended 
this manure to be placed an inch or two below 
the tubers at planting time, or beneath the 
bed on which the seeds are sown, and success 
has been at once obtained. 
The first step in the culture of the garden 
Anemone as an annual is to obtain seed from a 
good strain of double and semi-double varieties. 
The best of Anemone seed is very rarely for 
sale; the Continental people who cultivate 
this flower doubtless find the sale of tubers, 
to which some fancy name is attached, far 
more profitable than the sale of the seed which 
yields them so quickly and so readily. If 
possible obtain a bit of good seed from some 
friend who makes Anemone culture a speciality. 
If this is not easy, purchase a couple of dozen 
named tubers, the finest in size and colour 
that are obtainable, and commence by saving 
every bit of seed that ripens. In this way 
some good sorts will be gained, and selection 
and seed saving only from the very finest 
flowers will do the rest. 
At this dull wintry season, and early in the 
spring months, we have no hardy flowers that 
approach the garden Anemone in vivid colour, 
and now they are most lovely as cut blooms 
arranged in contrast along with white Chry¬ 
santhemums such as Soeur de Melanie, Tre- 
venna, Elaine, Mrs. G. Rundle, and others, 
and if they are cut in the early bud-stage of 
