. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . succeeds best on the Pear stock, and as it makes rather anawkward pyramid, the bush form will be the most proper for Pbodigue (stn. Rotisselet Enfant Prodigue: Nec-tarine of Leroy, erroneously).—This is one of numerous va-rieties raised by Van Mons, which keep cropping up perio-dically, as additional evidences of the indefatigable labours ofthe industrious Professor. It was raised about 1830 m hisgarden at Louvain, and although it is well known on the Con-tinent, it has never been much cultivated in this country
. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . succeeds best on the Pear stock, and as it makes rather anawkward pyramid, the bush form will be the most proper for Pbodigue (stn. Rotisselet Enfant Prodigue: Nec-tarine of Leroy, erroneously).—This is one of numerous va-rieties raised by Van Mons, which keep cropping up perio-dically, as additional evidences of the indefatigable labours ofthe industrious Professor. It was raised about 1830 m hisgarden at Louvain, and although it is well known on the Con-tinent, it has never been much cultivated in this country. 18is not always of first-rate quaUty, but in situations such as thewest of England, and other favoured localities, where it doessucceed, its fine brisk sweet juice and high flavour commend itas a variety well worth growing. The fruit is variable in size; the specimen here figuredbeing larger than is usual. It is uneven and bossed m its out-line. The skin is clear dark green, changing as it ripens topale yellow, which is sometimes quite obscured with veins and. Fondante du Cornice. Fondante du Cornice, which we now introduce to our readers,first fruited in the Societys garden at Angers in the year has been slow in coming into notice in this country, pro-bably from the ignorance of cultivators of its merits Sixyears ago we met with it in the collection of M. Andrfi Leroy,at Angers, to whose courtesy in furnishing us with numerous Enfant Prodigue. mottles of cinnamon-coloured russet. Eye large and open,with broad, flat, leaf-like segments set in a rather deep anduneven basin. Stalk half an inch long, woody, set in a wideshallow depression. Flesh greenish under the skin, cnsp, andhalf melting, very juicy, sweet, acidulous, and with a tinearoma partaking of that of the Seckle. Jannary 5, 1871. ] JOUENAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 11 An excellent Pear, with a fine acidnlous flavour, ripe in thebeginning of October, and continuing in use throughout thamonth. Th
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