The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . tself a reservoir of nutriment for future growthand support. — Florist. CiANOPHYLLUM. — This plant requires to be grown in a stove, in a strongmoist heat, and with just shading enough to prevent scorching. It requiresliberal potting when young, and to have a free open compost of rough peat andsand, to which a little mellow loam may be added in the later stages. It wasintroduced some years since from Tropical America. Notes and Gleanings. 53 Madame Treyve Pear. — One of the most beautiful, perhaps the mostbeautiful and finest summer
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . tself a reservoir of nutriment for future growthand support. — Florist. CiANOPHYLLUM. — This plant requires to be grown in a stove, in a strongmoist heat, and with just shading enough to prevent scorching. It requiresliberal potting when young, and to have a free open compost of rough peat andsand, to which a little mellow loam may be added in the later stages. It wasintroduced some years since from Tropical America. Notes and Gleanings. 53 Madame Treyve Pear. — One of the most beautiful, perhaps the mostbeautiful and finest summer pear we have seen, is a variety sent us by Mr. Riv-ers, and of which we furnish our readers with a figure in our present will be seen by the figure, it is of good size ; but it requires the painters pen-cil to give any idea of the color, which, on the side exposed to the sun, is of abrilliant vermilion crimson, — more brilliant even than Forelle, which is one ofthe highest-colored of pears. On the shaded side, Madame Treyve is of a pale r^. straw-yellow; but on that next the sun, and extendingsurface of the fruit, it is as we have already described it,yellow dots. The eye is very small and open, and set inthe stalk slender, half an inch to three-quarters long,cavity; flesh white, like that of Forelle, melting like aand sugary, with a delicate and highly-refined aroma,ripe in the beginning of September. — English Journal over three parts of theand dotted with minutea narrow, round basin ;set in a round, narrowpeach, very juicy, rich,A most delicious pear,of Horticulture. 54 Notes and Gleanings. Doyenne du Comice Pear. — This is one of the newer French pears, andis one of first-class excellence ; coming into use in the months of October andNovember. The fruit is large and obovate, with a smooth skin, and, when ripe,of a yellowish-green color, with here and there irregular patches of russet onthe sunny side, which is also frequently flushed with red. The eye
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