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compensate for that. In eating about 15th Oct. My trees on 
Quince are moderate growers and hardy. 
Marie Louise. —Beautiful in appearance, and, to my taste, 
unsurpassed in flavor and quality, it is considered by high au¬ 
thorities, as hardy and productive; but I greatly regret that it 
has not proved so with me, though I must confess my trees were 
not underdrained, which may have occasioned their loss in 1855- 
? 56, though the Urbaniste, Beurre d’ Amalis, and Bezi de La- 
motte, standing alongside of them, escaped. With me it grew 
well on Quince, though Rivers says it does not. Tree, rampant 
and twisting in its growth; ripe about Oct. 15th. 
Duchess d’ Angouleme. —On the Quince this magnificent 
Pear is the pride of the amateur, both in size and flavor, wher¬ 
ever it is hardy enough to stand the climate, and has a suffi¬ 
ciently rich and sandy loam well drained, to bring out all its 
good qualities. But the same cannot be said of it on the pear 
stock, or in cold or wet soils. With me a handsome Pyramid, 
planted in 1848, in a drained border, which, in 1855, bore over 
eight dozen, large and fine fruit, was, by the severity of that 
winter, so injured in its fruit spurs, that it has not yet recover¬ 
ed from the loss. Some of the branches were also killed for a 
foot or two at their extremities, which required very severe 
pruning to bring it again into shape. It is now, however, again 
growing vigorously, and was covered with blossoms last spring, 
but the crop for this season was nearly cut off by the cold rains 
when in blossom. It bears early and comes in eating in No¬ 
vember, succeeding the White Doyenne, of which it is a worthy 
successor. 
