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THE TEACH PEAR.-ROSE HEDGES. 
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TIIE PEACH PEAR. 
["Plate 477.] 
• T ^ 00D early dessert Pears are very useful 
, fruits. They come in at a time when 
the variety amongst choice table fruits 
is becoming somewhat diminished, and in 
themselves they offer a pleasant change, and 
prove very grateful and refreshing to the palate, 
especially in seasons when the temperature 
runs high. Hence we have sought opportunities 
from time to time to figure some of those early 
varieties which are but little known, though 
very well worth growing. 
The Peach Pear, of which we now give an 
illustration of the true variety, is one of those 
which come into the above category, being not 
only comparatively early—beginning of Sep¬ 
tember—but good. It will be remembered 
that some time since (Florist, 1877, 157, t. 
447) we published, under this title, a figure 
of an early Pear, the name of which there was 
some reason to doubt, the variety having, by 
some means or other, got mixed up with 
'eurre Giffard. This fruit was produced in 
1874. The tree has not borne again till the pre¬ 
sent season, so that a further examination has 
not hitherto been possible ; but now that the 
opportunity has occurred, it proves to be the 
variety named Auguste Jurie , and as the par¬ 
ticular example represented in our former plate 
was somewhat exceptional as to outline, we add 
here a sectional figure, prepared in 1874, when 
our drawing was made, and which shows its 
more usual character. The name of the Pear 
published last year should therefore be changed 
to Auguste Jurie, as it is to this that the figure 
and description refers, and which, as we learn 
from Scott’s Orcbardist , was raised at Fjcully in 
1851. The variety is not mentioned in Hogg’s 
Fruit Manual (1875), but has been figured and 
described in a recent number of the Journal 
of Horticulture (n. s., xxxv., 220), where its 
history is thus more fully stated :— 
, “ This was raised from Beurre Giffard at the 
Ecole d’Horticulture, Ecully, near Lyons, which is 
under the able direction of our friend M. Willermoz, 
and was named in honour of M. Auguste Jurie, 
President of the Horticultural Society of the Rhone. 
It first ripened fruit on August 11th, 1S51, and 
was described by Abbe D. Dupuy, of Auch, in 
L’Abeille Pomologique for 1863. As described by 
Abbe Dupuy, it is bright red on the side next the 
sun, which is no doubt attributable to the climate 
of the South of France, for here ive have found no 
trace of red upon it, though we have seen it with a 
slight orange tinge on the exposed side.” 
The specimens figured in both instances 
were grown in the garden of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society at Chiswick. Those of the 
Peach Pear may be described as follows :— 
Shape pyriform. Stalk one inch long, inserted 
in the centre of the fruit in an uneven cavity. 
Eye large, open, inserted in a shallow basin. 
Skin rough, greenish-yellow, and covered with 
russet. Flesh greenish-yellow, firm, not melt¬ 
ing, and rather coarse, but very sweet and 
agreeable, with the true pear flavour. In point 
of earliness, Auguste Jurie has the advantage, 
being ripe some two or three weeks before the 
Peach Pear. It ripens, in fact, about the 
middle of August, while the Peach Pear ripens 
early in September.—T. Moore. 
ROSE HEDGES. 
« EDGES of Roses of the Noisette section 
are, if pi'operly managed, the most 
showy ornaments that can be grown, 
either in the pleasure or kitchen garden. At 
the present time, I have hedges of the Fellenberg 
and Aime'e Vibert in the kitchen garden here, 
forming a mass of bloom, which will continue till 
