January  23,  110.:. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
8T 
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Pear,  UYedale’s  St.  Germain. 
varieties  of  this  class  ranked  very  highly  among  autumn 
Roses,  but  it  must  be  admitted  that  they  have  been  some¬ 
what  eclipsed  of  late  by  the  Teas  and  Hybrid  Teas.  As  a 
class,  however,  it  is  still  justly  held  in  high  esteem  for  late 
flowering,  for  although  many  of  its  varieties  cannot  be  de¬ 
pended  upon  to  give  sufficient  flowers  in  autumn  to  produce 
any  great  effect  in  the  garden,  such  favourites  as  Alfred 
Colomb,  Ella  Gordon,  Fisher  Holmes,  Mrs.  John  Laing,  and 
others  are  of  great  excellence  . 
Among  the  minor  classes  of  Roses,  several  of  the  Rugosa 
Roses  are  good  autumnals,  and  they  are  further  valuable 
for  their  extreme  hardiness.  They  successfully  withstand 
severe  frost,  and  are  often  found  to  thrive  well  in  the  neigh¬ 
bourhood  of  large  towns,  and  under  other  unfavourable  con¬ 
ditions  of  soil  and  climate.  Several  of  them  also  possess  an 
additional  attraction  in  the  showy  heps  which  succeed  the 
flowers.  Other  good  autumnal  blooming-species  are  the 
Microphylla  and  Macartney  Roses,  which,  however,  are 
rather  tender,  and  succeed  best  with  the  protection  of  a  wall  ; 
the  Perpetual  Moss  Roses,  which  as  yet  do  not  appear  to 
have  attained  to  the  popularity  enjoyed  by  their  summer¬ 
I  that  this  habit  could  be  perpetuated.  It  was  no  doubt  due- 
j  to  the  long  warm  summer,  broken  by  a  cool  wet  week  at  the 
commencement  of  August,  and  followed  by  another  spell  of' 
I  warm  weather,  which  caused  the  plants  to  start  into  a  second: 
growth,  and  to  produce  flowering  shoots  from  already  well- 
ripened  and  developed  eyes.  We  also  read  in  the  papers  last 
January  of  an  autumn-blooming  form  of  the  Crimson  Ram¬ 
bler,  which  I  think  may  be  referable  to  the  same  cause, 
although,  of  course,  this  is  conjectural. 
(To  be  concluded.) 
Apropos  oi  the  extraordinary  weight  and  size  to  which  Pear 
Uveda'es  St.  Germain  (or  Belle  Angevine,  as  it  is  called  in- 
France)  attams,  it  may  be  interesting  to  state  that  some  thirty 
years  ago  there  was  to  be- 
seen  in  Solomon’s  shop  win- 
doAv  (Covent  Garden)  a  dozen, 
of  the  fruit  ticketed  at  from 
one  to  tiyo  guineas  apiece; 
they  Aveighed  collectively 
about  361b.  Mr.  Solomon,  I 
believe,  was  offered  thirty 
guineas  for  the  lot,  but 
chose  to  keep  them  for  let¬ 
ting  out  to  dinner  parties. 
At  a  South  Kensington  ex¬ 
hibition  in  1874,  M.  Brehaut, 
of  Guernsey,  exhibited  six 
fruit.s  of  this  Pear,  weighing 
2(ilb :  the  largest  fruit 
weighed  exactly  olb,  and 
measuri'd  2()in  in  circum¬ 
ference.  They  were  declared 
to  have  been  grown  on  a 
single  cordon  tree,  yet  one 
cf  the  fruits  n  eighed  51b  I 
"Ihie  figures  on  pages  86  and 
87  are  from  photographs  of  a 
tree  at  Weston  House,  Earl 
Camperdown’s  residence  near 
Shipston-on-Stour,  in  War¬ 
wickshire,  and  w  here  his  gar¬ 
dener,  Mr.  J.  Mastersoii,  so 
ablj'  cultivates  hardy  fruits 
cf  all  kinds.  The  winter 
view  of  the  Pear  presents  a 
capital  object  lesson  in  care¬ 
ful  training,  and  should  be 
an  incentive  to  young  men 
who  are  busily  engaged  in  the 
pruning  and  nailing  of  wall 
trees  out  of  doors  at  this 
season. — G. 
The  practice  of  hiring  out 
these  monstrous  specimens  of 
this  coarse  variety  of  Pear 
we  believe  is  still  in  vogue. 
These  large  fruits  have  little  more  flavour  than  Swede  Turnips,  and 
are  only  tit  for  stewing.  For  this  purpose  alone  can  the  variety 
be  commended,  and  for  heavy  yields  few  Pears  excel  it.  In  use 
fi’om  January  to  April.  We  quote  from  “  T'he  Fruit  Manual  ” 
the  following  history  of  it:  “This  appears  to  be  an  English  Pear, 
and  to  have  been  raised  by  Dr.  TJvedale,  who  w^  a  schoolmaster, 
and  lived  at  Eltham,  in  Kent,  in  1690.  Miller,  in  the  first 
edition  of  his  Dictionary  (1724),  speaks  of  him  as  Dr.  I  dal,  of 
Enfield  [to  which  place  the  latter  had  removed],  'a  curious  col¬ 
lector,  and  introducer  of  many  rare  exoticks,  plants  and  flowers. 
Bradley,  in  1733,  speaks  of  the  Pear  as  ‘  Dr.  Ihlale’s  great  Pear, 
called  by  some  tlie  X^nion  Pear,  whose  fruit  is  about  that  length 
one  may  allow  8in/  I  [Dr.  Hog^]  have  ascertained  by 
the  old  books  of  the  Brompton  Park  Nurseiw  that  it  was  growm- 
there  in  1752  under  the  name  of  ‘Ddale’s  St.  Jarmaine.  .  . 
It  is  very  probable  that  by  some  means  it  wms  transported  from- 
England  to  Pans.  .  .  •” 
Edinburgh  Gardeners’  Assembly. 
A  few  enterprising  members  of  the  fraternity  have  this  season 
rganised  a  dance,  which  is  to  take  place 
i.st.  Somewhere  about  fifty  couple  are  to  take  the  floor,  and 
lould  the  venture  be  successful,  it  will  be  held  annually.  e- 
isb  it  a  heartv  success. — S. 
Pear,  Uvedale’s  St.  Germain -Summer  Aspect  at  Weston  House,  Shipston=on=Stour. 
flowering  relatives ;  the  Perpetual  Scotch  Roses,  one  of 
■vv’hich,  the  Stanwell  Perpetual,  forms  strong  hardy  bushes 
covered  with  deliciously  scented,  rosy-white  flow^ers  in 
autumn ;  the  Musk  Roses,  whose  clusters  of  double  flowers 
remind  one  of  the  Ayrshire  and  other  climbing  cluster  Roses 
of  summer;  and  the  Damask  or  Portland  Perpetuals,  which 
were  once  exceedingly  popular,  but  have  now  almost  passed 
out  of  cultivation.  The  single-flowered  Rosa  Wichuriana  is 
a  beautiful  autumnal  bloomer,  but  the  hybrids  of  it  intro¬ 
duced  at  present  do  not  preserve  this  trait.  The  Clyno- 
phylla  duplex  should  also  not  be  lost  sight  of ;  it  has  rosy- 
white  flowers  with  distinct  downy  foliage. 
Passing  allusion  may  also  be  made  to  the  autumn  flowers 
which  are  occasionally  produced  by  varieties  whose  nature  it 
is  to  bloom  once  only,  in  early  summer.  The  Briar  Rose 
Harrisonii  has  been  known  to  flower  at  Waltham  Cross  in 
autumn,  and  I  have  heard  of  the  same  occurrence  elsewhere, 
but  I  never  knew  its  autumn-blooming  character  to  be  fixed 
by  propagating  from  the  flowering  wood,  although  I  know 
the  attempt  has  been  made.  Last  year,  also,  I  noticed  in 
several  places  some  of  the  summer-flowering  climbing  Roses 
of  the  Ayrshire  and  Evergreen  classes  givine  a  second  crop 
of  flowers  in  September  and  October,  but  I  do  not  imagine 
