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cultivators, to be the first of winter pears 

 for this climate. The tree, hardy, uniformly 

 productive, and holding its fruit well ; the 

 fruit itself high flavored, maturing perfectly 

 in all situations, and always keeping and 

 ripening admirably ; what better character 

 is necessary to place it foremost among se- 

 lect and valuable varieties? 



Among autumn pears, the Beurre Bosc 

 proves, year after year, equally deserving 

 of praise. Its branches are regularly laden 

 with large, fair, and beautiful specimens, 

 of a fine yellow, touched with a little 

 cinnamon russet, w^hich ripen gradual- 

 ly, and always attain a delicious flavor. 

 With many sorts of pears, it is unfortunately 

 the case that only one fruit in ten is a really 

 fine specimen. With the Beurre Bosc, it is 

 just the reverse; scarcely one in ten is 

 blemished in appearance, or defective in 

 flavor. It is, in short, a standard fruit of 

 the highest excellence, and worthy of uni- 

 versal cultivation. 



Dearborn's Seedling. — This most excel- 

 lent little pear, raised by Gen. Dearborn of 



Boston, has scarcely had justice done it. 

 Its merits have been in fact eclipsed by the 

 more showy qualities of the Barthtt, which 

 ripens but a little later. Indeed, the Bartlett 

 pear, from its unusual productiveness, size, 

 excellence and beauty, as an early fruit, 

 added to its vigor as a tree, and the rapidity 

 with which it comes into bearing, has ac- 

 tually been the object of a sort of mania 

 among those largely engaged in pear plant- 

 ing, within the last three years. 



Notwithstanding this, Dearborn's Seed- 

 ling deserves a place in every garden and 

 ever}'' orchard. It is, we admit, not a large 

 pear, but it is one of most excellent flavor, 

 and bears such regular and enormous crops, 

 that its moderate size is amply compensated 

 for by the abundant quantity. As, like 

 most pears, it is always best when ripened 

 in the house, it will bear transportation to 

 market \vell ; and no one who makes an 

 acquaintance with its flavor, will feel in- 

 clined to lay it aside for any competitor of 

 its season. 



RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



DESIGN FOR IMPROVING AN ORDINARY COUNTRY HOUSE. 



No man has it in his power to say when or 

 where he shall be born into the world. He 

 has nothing to do with the conditions of his 

 personal appearance. Whether he shall 

 have the portly figure of John Bull, or the 

 spare one of the walking skeleton ; whether 

 he shall be a giant or a dwarf; or belong to 

 the Hottentot, or a Caucasian race ; all 

 these are matters over which he has no 

 control whatever. Mankind are therefore 

 forced to accept the conditions of birth as 

 they find them. 



But we are not equally obliged to folloAv 



the law of necessity in all other conditions 

 of life. A man is not always forced to be 

 meanly clad, like the Esquimaux. He need 

 not always live in a hut or a wigwam, like 

 the Potowatomies. A civilized man will 

 first make his habitation and his outward 

 circumstances comfortable and convenient 

 for all his wants. His reason teaches him 

 to do this. He will then add something of 

 grace and beauty to the objects that sur- 

 round him ; — to his dress — his house — and 

 his grounds. The sense of the beautiful 

 and perfect — attributes of the godlike, im- 



