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baAg Pearschaveibecome/insmanyndistridts jim! this neountry fitosubjects 
forvsonchard -heitse:ctiltuié, cind: very prdpetly iso, for L look: upbn ‘a well- 
prowm1iPcar) asi one -of! the/finestsfruits.6i Pomona’ssdisty/the experi+ 
ment might: easily! bésttied; asrawery:slight change of treatment would 
produce dagenial teniperaturei a ifew:degtees! less heatithanawhat will 
bipentheePeachy andra slightsadditidn toithemmoistule of theatmosphere, 
4s all that isjrequired,! supposilig Pearsonly are igrown, and these con- 
Wditions:every orchardshouse! ano supply. |isSuch bi infef. would produce 
large fruity perfectly iméltmg, aid entirely free from grittiness-or stringi~ 
nesssiandywith:therdeliciows aroma avhichow good: Pear, like! pood wine, 
should possessy when imperfections io Will: any:-one try ithis,:and report 
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Leisemnoo vistsmito: osm od bos .bosies\ wor boas sou (i! 
juode MOR AQHN, STANDISH, ROYAL NURSERY, BAGSHOT, 5 
ALB ERTOSMYPH in onelof hisvewmusing entertainments;iused! Gn | 
describing some particularly dreary2placesto' say, «Sit! was aeplace where 
Hobody could live; just avyou kiow nobody could live at Woking.” And 
‘certainly anything more: wretched than they view one thasf aty when 
-passifig’ along®on'the Sotithampton ling; carinotbe avell imagineddexo- 
Fatelénough’ for some moorland districtinoSeotland nob fora county! so 
“full ‘of beautiful seenery ‘assSurrey ;vand then itsJadjuncts are) not of a 
particularly lively character+aseémetery iat’ one etd Sand a! prison ‘for 
qivalid convicts atthe other, do not inditate muchof man's efforts to'add 
‘eheerilness” to! the ‘scene! :2sand'! yetpdike) a /greatomahy ‘other things 
‘ (Gitiged cats ‘amongst 'the rest) :it 19 better than it Looksoq@he railway 
°gbes° throtigh ‘the? worst part’ of Gt) and a) ahore'lintifvate) acd uaintanée 
revealed much’ watinchearted hospitality and someavery pretty sdenery ; 
arid moré'than thal, that this neighbourhood is tothe groweiof Anterican 
“plants; ‘Conifers; and shrubs, what) Hertfordshire is tothe: Rose'growers, 
the peaty atid’ ‘sandy character of the'soilobeing/admirably-adapted for 
‘the ‘purpose @atid Tcouldsée that Mr. Standish) ipsettling-down«ihtisuch 
off ne abu ood oh wel iveniotherpteated! portiontio€ Vis attention’ to 
those! plants “which thrive’ best2inthisosoil andsksitwation toviz){ those 
“which po dnder the name of América plants,o( Nop thatoW oking is the 
“waly’ to “get'to! Bagshot ; it is°@iAvayy‘andila roundaboutoner too,:the 
nearest, ‘station Heit” a! niuch more enticing one bothin ‘situation’ and 
“nanié, Suimingdale, ‘onthe iLondon' ahd Reading branch! of the South- 
“Western lite, rot more! than two nilescand a half from [Bagshot + but it 
“Was by Woking DP was compelled ‘to-reacl my destination, “ Amongst the 
‘many nurseres'in'this neighboathood those of Waterer, and Godfrey 
“Baker, Noble, Donald, Jaekiian} and othersthere jis a peculiar interest 
“attaching to My. ‘Staridish) from the ‘fact that Mri: Robert Fortune was 
“eonnected With hinein his lateoChinese expedition, ‘and’ is also in his 
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