" The engravings attached to two advertisements inserted in this number, will 

 give an idea of improvements in the portable steam-engine, which are a long step 

 in advance of all that have preceded them in simplicity, durability, and cheapness. 

 The novelty of the design, in Blandy's engine, is apparent to any persons who have 

 examined other attainments in steam-engine building, either portable or movable. 



" The fire-box is of good size, and adapted to any kind of fuel, or mixed fuel, 

 and, from its peculiar shape, is nearly self-supporting, and having no crown bars, 

 and very few stay bolts. This is not its greatest novelty or superiority, for this 

 is in the bed-plate, which is a hollow column, having legs cast on it for its own 

 attachment to the boiler, and seats for all the working parts of the engine, all 

 of which are arranged in a straight line. The inside of this tubular bed-plate, is 

 used to heat the supply of water before going into the boiler, by the waste steam. 



" Its whole arrangement is as compact and artistic as a lever watch, and almost 

 any size up to fifty-horse power can be moved on an ordinary, stout, farm wagon, 

 and occupy not so much space as a common buggy or carriage. The exceeding 

 simplicity enables any person, with a day's teaching, to run it safely and success- 

 fully." 



Further particulars may be found by reference to the cards of the inventors and 

 builders, in the advertising department, as well for the Ohio engine as for that 

 of Harlan and Hollingsworth, to both of which we desire to call attention. 



KEW PEARS. 



No. 1. Church Pear. — A seedling from New Rochelle, N. Y., medium size; 

 stem, about one inch ; skin, bright green, turning to yellow green in the process 

 of ripening, spotted 

 and marbled with 

 hazel russet, which 

 russet always sur- 

 rounds the cavity. 

 Calyx closed, basin 

 medium, segments 

 little apparent. 

 Flesh buttery, very 

 juicy and melting ; 

 sweet, aromatic, 

 best. Ripens slow- 

 ly from 15th July 

 to first week in Au- 

 gust ; keeps well 

 and long when ripe 

 without rot at the 

 core. In my opin- 

 ion one of the best. 

 — B. 



No. 2. Hunting- 

 don Pear. — An- 

 other New Ro- 

 chelle seedling ; 



dium size or be- 



medium, with No. 1.— Church. No. 2.— Huntingdon 



