RAISING SEEDLING PEARS. 



structures as these be sprinked over the 

 country, instead of the frost-work things 

 two often exhibited, and we may be "some- 

 body" in good time. 



Gardening in California. — If a cargo of 

 ood market gardeners \vere to emigrate to 

 California, I have no doubt they would 

 make fortunes there more surely, if not 

 more rapidly, than the gold diggers. I 

 long to hear some true account of the agri- 

 cultural capacity of that country. 



A Statesman Cultivator. — Why, sir, you 

 talk as though a statesman should not be a 

 man of taste and accomplishments in po- 

 mology, or agriculture as well ! Where 

 will you find greater or more refined ac- 

 complishment, next to those necessary re- 

 quirements of a statesman in his proper 

 calling, than as a cultivator of the soil, a 

 pomologist, or a florist ? I do really hope 

 the time is soon to come when a man whom 

 his neighbors think fit to send to the state 

 legislature, or to congress, will not be 

 ashamed to acknowledge that he is a farmer 

 or a gardener. A plague upon these con- 

 ventional follies ! George Washington 

 was once a surveyor ; Roger Sherman, a 

 shoemaker; Benjamin Franklin, a printer; 

 Israel Putnam, a farmer, always; and 

 General Greene, a blacksmith, by trade ; 

 but now-a-days every member of congress, 



or of the legislature, must be a member of 

 some learned (?) profession ; or if too idle to 

 get a living by doing something, and able 

 to live without, must, in his paltry pride, 

 dub himself " gentleman ! " Out upon such 

 nonsense. I hope ere long to see the day 

 when it is not the profession, the trade, or 

 the calling which exalts the man, but the 

 man himself, in the full exercise of his 

 own moral powers, that will give honor to 

 his vocation. 



Cincinnati Hort. Society. — The Cincin- 

 natians will have an opportunity next fall 

 to show themselves, and their horticulture 

 and their agriculture to-boot, and, no doubt, 

 creditably. There is a liberality in their 

 premiums, and a toleration in their offers 

 of competition that must excite a large, 

 varied, and rare display. I hope our lead- 

 ing eastern pomologists and florists will go 

 there, if only to extend to them the right 

 hand of fellowship, and show that they fra- 

 ternize in their noble occupation ; but much 

 more, to learn of them what is most current 

 in the great Ohio valley, and bring away 

 what spoils they may that will be to their 

 advantage. Great good must grow out of 

 these festivals. They are among the ce- 

 menting material that is to bind us more 

 closely together in the strong brotherhood 

 of nations. Jeffreys. 



HINTS FOR RAISING SEEDLING PEARS. 

 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HORT. SOCIETY, BOSTON. 



How to raise new and valuable varieties of 

 pears, and indeed any of the larger fruits 

 from seed, is but partially understood, not- 

 withstanding Knight, Van Mons and others 

 have written so much as to have apparently 

 exhausted the subject. Still, much infor- 

 mation on the raising of new fruits may be 



obtained, if it is discussed by our working 

 and thinking cultivators. 



The desire to elicit information from 

 others, rather than express my own views, 

 on a subject which is so much better under- 

 stood by yourself, Mr. Editor, and by many 

 of your readers than by myself, has induced 



