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abundant bearer, but the flavor always su- 

 gary and good. 



Heathcot. I have noticed your remarks 

 on the good qualities of this fruit, in the 

 last volume of the Horticulturist. It de- 

 serves all you say. The tree is thrifty and 

 free from blight. The fruit is among the 

 best of the autumn pears. 



FoNDANTE d'Automne. It is a pity that 

 this delicious pear is not higher coloured, 

 or more attractive in appearance. It is the 

 only pear that I know, which rivals the 

 Seckel in honied aromatic flavor. 



Chelmsford. A large, coarse fruit, yel- 

 low, with a red cheek, only fit for cooking. 



St. Ghislaix. This excellent fruit is a 

 little too variable — some seasons delicious, 

 others pithy. 



Gray Doyenne. Among the very best 

 pears in the world ! Always good, rather 

 later, and always fairer than the White 

 Doyenn^ or Butter pear. 



Capiaumont. As prolific as a Boston 

 Russet apple, and therefore profitable for 

 the orchardist ; but too apt to be astringent 

 to suit the palate of a good judge of fruit. 



Louise bonne de Jersey. Always bears 

 large crops of handsome, juicy, refreshing 

 pears. This pear, for September, may be 

 likened to the Bartlett for August ; i. e. it 

 always gives satisfaction by its productive- 

 ness and good quality. 



AsTON Town. A poor fruit ; it may- 

 please an English palate, but its small size 

 and indifferent flavor are not relished here. 



Belle et Bonne. Large, but of a poor 

 flavor, and on the whole not worthy of cul- 

 tivation. 



Marie Louise. Very fine, as almost 

 every pear grower knows. The tree, how- 

 ever, wants a rich deep soil. 



Hericart. Flavor very poor ; a sort 

 quite unworthy of general culiivation. 



Petre. This is a ver)' favorite fruit of 

 mine. It has much of the delicious quali- 

 ties of that old favorite, the Butter pear 

 (Doyenne.) 



Van Mons' Leon le Clerc. This varie- 

 ty has now borne two years a very few spe- 

 cimens only. The fruit is large, fair and 

 handsome, and the flavor very good. It 

 will, from the vigor of the tree, and its fine 

 size, undoubtedly be a popular fruit. 



Stevens' Genesee. A very excellent 

 American pear, with all the productiveness 

 and vigor of our native sorts. The fruit 

 grows large, and I consider it a standard 

 sort. 



Urbaniste. a delicious fruit. Persons 

 who have small gardens, ought, however, 

 to grow it on quince bottoms, as on pear 

 stocks, it takes eight or ten years before it 

 becomes productive. Your friend. 



J. L. 



POMOLOGICAL REFORM. 



Oitr readers do not require to be told that 

 the all-engrossing subject, which, at the 

 present moment, occupies the minds of hor- 

 ticulturists generoUy, in the United States, 

 is the cultivation of the finest ha-Tdy fruits. 

 The orchardist, within convenient distance 

 of markets, considers it the best investment 

 of capital applied to land ; and the amateur 



finds in the collection and cultivation of 

 all the choicest sorts, both an agreeable and 

 interesting occupation, and a means of con- 

 ferring a real benefit on the district of coun- 

 try in which he resides ; while the more 

 humble private grower, with limited space, 

 finds in the produce of his half dozen select 

 trees, almost as much to delight and inte- 



