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can test their merits. Mr. Barry kindly went to their cellar and brought the "Winter Nelis, 

 Easter Beurre, Vicar of Winkfield, Beurre d'Aremherg, and St. Gennain. 



I need not say they were all good, but the Easter Beurre bore the palm, in our humble 

 opinion. While partaking of their hospitality, I thought of what a service these gentlemen, 

 with others of the same profession in almost every portion of the States, had done our 

 country in the introduction of so many kinds of rare fruits amongst us. 



The day was propitious for a walk, and although many of the trees were denuded of their 

 foliage, we could admire the beauty of their symmetry. It was a winter scene of beauty, 

 for the evergreen trees were hung with tapestry of snow. They partook of the day, and 

 were truly " Christmas trees." Ours was a happy day, such as we hope your readers all had. 



Truly, James H. Watts. 



Rochester, Dec. 25, 1855. 



Manchester, Adams Co., OMo. Dear Sir : I planted a lot of dwarf pear-trees on the 11th 

 of April last, and one of them (a Beurre Diel) bore fine, good pears, all of which ripened 

 nicely. Have any of your correspondents a tree of present year's planting that can beat it ? 



Yours with respect, John Ellison. 



[It is not a very unusual circumstance for pear-trees, which have been carefully taken up 

 in spring, to produce the same year. We have on hand a few Easter Beurres raised under 

 these circumstances the past season. — Ed.] 



Woodland Park, Springfield. Dear Sir : It is with great interest that I monthly peruse 

 your excellent' journal, T he Horticulturist ; it stands the highest of any horticultural work 

 in this country, and seems to me destined to have the largest number of subscribers of any 

 work of the kind. 



Having been a subscriber of the journal for the last six years, have been glad to see it 

 prosper, and hope it may continue to give the information that is required at the present 

 day, on the subject of horticulture. 



The cultivation of the pear has been my hobby for the last four years, and I have found 

 it a pleasant pastime — have not realized much from my orchard yet, but live in hopes. May 

 we not hope to see this delicious fruit abundant ere long, that all may partake of it ? 



Yours very truly, D. Chauncey Bkewek. 



Trees in Illinois. — J. T. Little, of North Dixon, Illinois, sends us a neat descriptive cata- 

 logue of his nursery trees and shrubs, bulbs, &c. The fruit department is very full, em- 

 bracing sixty thousand trees ; but of evergreens, one of the great wants of that State, four 

 varieties only are enumerated. Send at once, Mr. Little, to Livei-pool or Angers, and get 

 out some thousands. Dixon, we remember, as a most happy, thriving place. 



For the Horticplturist. — W. R. Prince was right when, some time ago, he asserted in the 

 pages of the Horticulturist that the " tamarind was not growing in Virginia." His reason was 

 that it was "too tender to stand our mildest winters." Whether this is true or not, I am not 

 well enough acquainted with its habits to say ; but my son, Oliver Taylor, being in Win- 

 chester, some time since, on business, and being desirous of becoming acquainted with all 

 rare trees and shrubs, inquired for the Tamarind-tree, and was sliown a tree that they called 

 by that name, but which he immediately recognized as the Honey Locust (Sweet Locust, 

 Gleditchia Triacanthos of Michaux). They were loth to believe they had been mistaken, 

 but he was too well acquainted with the Honey Locust to be himself mistaken, while the 

 tripple thorns and pods were unmistakable evidence of the fact. Yardley Taylor. 



Loudon County, Va. 



