October  3, 1901. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER . 
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THURSDAY,  OCTOBER  3,  1901. 
Neglected  Varieties  of  Fruit. 
a<hiitjoa  to  growing  several  kinds 
of  fruits  rather  extensively,  I 
also  have  good  opportunities  for 
j  gleaning  much  useful  information 
among  numerous  private  and 
market  gardeners,  and  these  experi¬ 
ences  I  am  always  ready  and  willing 
to  give  others,  not  so  well  situated,  the 
benefit  of.  When  discussing  the  merits  of 
various  kinds  of  fruits  I  have  discovered  that  a  few 
really  excellent  varieties  have,  in  many  instances, 
been  overlooked  in  a  most  unaccountable  manner 
by  many  good  gardeners,  and  if  my  experience  is 
any  criterion,  then  the  great  majority  of  the  readers 
of  the  Journal  of  Horticulture  are  equally  to  blame 
Pears. 
This  has,  on  the  whole,  been  a  favourable  Pear 
season,  the  crops  in  many  cases  have  been  heavy, 
the  individual  fruits  of  full  average  size,  and  the 
quality  particularly  good.  Excellent  as  some  of 
the  early  varieties  have  been  in  point  of  quality, 
none  have  approached  that  of  Clapp's  Favourite. 
This  much  neglected  sort  is  of  American  origin, 
meeting  with  scant  recognition  from  the  framers 
of  most  catalogues,  and  cannot  even  be  obtained 
true  from  some  nurseries  I  have  dealt  with. 
Trees  on  the  Pear  stock  (my  so-called  Clapp’s 
Favourite  on  the  Quince  were  not  true  to  name) 
grow  freely  in  a  variety  of  positions ;  or  whether 
against  walls  or  as  pyramids  and  low  standards  in 
the  open,  are  naturally  very  prolific — that  is  to  say 
it  is  the  fault  of  our  climate  if  they  fail  to  set  good 
crops,  and,  ia  a  word,  are  as  reliable  as  the  trees 
of  most  other  varieties.  Tne  fruit  are  moderately 
large,  handsome  pyriform  in  outline,  very  ditferenr. 
to  the  comparatively  rough  fruit  of  Williams’  Bun 
Cnretien,  and  the  skin,  when  ripe,  clear  yellow  on 
the  shaded  side,  and  beautifully  shaded  and  striped 
with  crimson  on  the  exposed  side.  The  flesh  is 
buttery,  or  quite  as  much  so  as  Doyennd  du 
Cornice,  equal  in  point  of  flavour  to  that  esteemed 
READERS  are  requested  to  send  Notices  of  Gardenin. 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest 
Intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  fo> 
Publication,  officially  to  ’■  THE  EDITOR,"  ft' 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  oth*-» 
address. 
No.  1110.— Vol.  XLIII.  Third  Series. 
