The Farm.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 455, 19 March 1890, Page 3

The Farm.

(From the New Zealand Farmer.) Some French Pears. As those of our readers who take an interest in horticultural matters are aware, the pear has always been a favourite object of culture amongst French nurserymenarid orchardists. Referring to different varieties of pears of French origin, a writer observes that one of the very best of pears is the Josephine. de Malines ; others are the Zophim, Gregoire, the Easter JBeurre, the Passe Colmor, the Buerre Gris d’Hiver, the Ne Plus Meuris, the Bese di St. Waasi, the Buerre d’Arcm-

berg, the Yerte Long, the Virgouleuse, the Gloui Morceau—all of French origin. Leon Gregoire, a pear of medium size, russet red, sweet, a large bearer, ripens in October. Verte Long Panachee, a very fine autumnal pear, a shy bearer, is striped green and yellow.

ISEUKRE KRIS d'hIVER. Deux Svours is ono of the best eating pears, ripens in November, and is as good as Winter Nelis. Vauquelin is very large, but nob of high liavour ; never tested here. De la Motte is much like Gansel’s Bergamot, a large bearer, and worth trying. Virgoulese is little grown, a very old favourite in Eastern

gardens and of unsurpassed quality. Gloui Morceau is one of the old varieties, grown all over California, but not nearly so much a market fruit as it should be. Of the late pears Josephine de.Malines, Buerre Gris d’Hiver, Easter Buerre and Ne Plus Meuris, three of which we illustrate, are all very valuable pears, ripening from January to March, in the Northern hemisphere, corresponding to June or July to September in New Zealand.