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as follows : Desiring, for instance, to produce a new pear, 

 which (as a whole, including tree and fruit,) shall combine the 

 vigor, hardiness, productiveness, large size and fine appearance 

 of the Flemish Beauty with the exquisite flavor of the Doyenne 

 Gris, I insert into a thrify, bearing tree of the former, a well- 

 grown healthy scion of the latter, and thus bring the two varie- 

 ties into the closest proximity to each other, for the purpose of 

 effecting a cross between them by natural fertilization. As soon 

 as this scion produces fruit, I select the best specimens, and at 

 the proper season, (I prefer November,) sow the seeds in drills, 

 in light, rich garden mould, in the same manner as for raising 

 stocks. When the seedlings attain a sufficient size, which more 

 or less of them do the first year, I take from them buds or 

 scions, and insert them in bearing trees, for the purpose of 

 speedily obtaining specimens, — taking the precaution always to 

 make a memorandum of the connection between the bud or 

 scion thus set, and the seedling from which it was taken, that, 

 in case of its failure to grow, 1 may be able to replace it, and 

 that also, in case of its producing a valuable fruit, I can identify 

 and preserve the original tree. And to be able the more cer- 

 tainly to accomplish these several objects, I plant out all these 

 subjects of my experiments in nursery rows, at such ample 

 distances apart that they may remain until they attain to bear- 

 ing, which event I endeavor to hasten by grafting each tree 

 upon itself, at standard height. If any shall happen to produce 

 a fruit of merit, it can be at once transferred to the orchard ; if 

 otherwise, it can remain in its place, and serve as a stock for 

 the testing of other varieties." 



13. No general reply. 



14. The returns are generally from those who have the pear 

 on its own stock. 



15. Great increase. One cultivator reports fourfold. Another 

 three times as many as in 1850. 



PEACHES. 



1. Mr. Moore, of Concord, says: "Early Crawford, Late 

 Crawford, Poole's Yellow, Late Admirable, Jaques, Coolidge. 

 They ripen in succession, beginning with the Coolidge, from the 

 first of September to the fifth of October." 



2. Those obtained from seed are considered superior to the 

 budded varieties in hardiness and longevity. 



