. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Floriculture. ON FRUIT CULTURE. 1029. / fully ripe, and placed in a fruit-room to finish—not on a vinery or greenhouse shelf, as is frequently done. Clapp's Favourite cannot be termed first-class in flavour, but it is useful for its earliness, large size, splendid appearance, and free-bearing; August. Directeur Hardy is a new variety that is said to be of superior merit and a great bearer of large fruit; November. Doyenne du Comice is probably the finest Pear in cultivation, surpassing the well-known Marie Louise, and may be stron
. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Floriculture. ON FRUIT CULTURE. 1029. / fully ripe, and placed in a fruit-room to finish—not on a vinery or greenhouse shelf, as is frequently done. Clapp's Favourite cannot be termed first-class in flavour, but it is useful for its earliness, large size, splendid appearance, and free-bearing; August. Directeur Hardy is a new variety that is said to be of superior merit and a great bearer of large fruit; November. Doyenne du Comice is probably the finest Pear in cultivation, surpassing the well-known Marie Louise, and may be strongly recom- mended as a cordon or trained tree against a wall, pro- ducing heavy crops of large, handsome fruit; November. Duchesse d'Angouleme is only valuable for exhibition pur- poses ; the fruit is very large, and freely produced, but de- cidedly second-rate in flavour ; November. Durondeau is a very handsome Pear, of good size, delicious flavour, and a great cropper ; October. Glou Morceau is a valuable variety, and should be left on the tree until beginning to fall; it will then afford a supply of fruit of excellent quality about Christmas and the New Year. Le Lectier is a new variety, promising to be a great acquisition ; small cordon- trees have borne large fruit, of fine flavour, ready for use in February. Louise Bonne de Jersey is a well-known and reliable variety, and though it bears profusely as a cordon, we consider it best flavoured from bush or standard trees ; October. Marie Louise is another universal favourite, succeeding well as a cordon; November. ]Marie Benoist is a large, fine-flavoured variety, fruiting abundantly: December. Magnate, a large, hand- some variety, a good grower and bearer ; October. ^Marguerite Marrillat, a new, very large, handsome variety, of delicious flavour ; September. Nouvelle Fulvie is large, but not handsome, of good flavour, and a heavy cropper ; January and February. Pit- maston Duchess, of enormous size on cordon-trees, fine go
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