DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



be found. A part of Col. Wilder's grounds 

 consist of reclaiiiied bog. with an ample addi- 

 tion of improving and fertilising materials; and 

 the finest jjear grounds belonging to President 

 Walker he stated had been very heavily dress- 

 ed with yard manure, with additions of ashes 

 and guano, and the whole repeatedly plowed, 

 and repeatedly subsoiled, till mellow and rich 

 in a high degree to a depth of about two feet. 

 The growth of the trees fully corroborated his 

 account. Limited observations at Philadelphia 

 indicated a somewhat similar condition of the 

 trees at that place. 



Pyramidal Pears. — The finest collection, 

 perhaps, in this country, are the 1500 pj'ramids 

 of HovEY & Co., at Cambridge, some of them 

 10 foet high. The pear crop proving this year 

 mostly a failure, but few of them were loaded 

 with iVuit; but the beauty of their training, 

 as presented in the long avenues of these trees, 

 could .scarcely be surpas.sed by Cappe's cele- 

 brated trees of Paris. These were mostly, like 

 Cappe's, on pear roots. Equally handsome 

 specimens were observed on some parts of Col. 

 Wilder's grounds. 



New Pears. — Of the newer varieties which 

 have been considerably proved, none appear to 

 be more generally admired than the Doyenne 

 Boussouck. for size, growth, productivenessand 

 quality. \Yc Jiave never heard a word against 

 its higli clianicter. The Beiirre Langelicr is 

 regarded by IIovey as the best early winter 

 I)ear, and is highly esteemed by Manning, 

 Walker, and others; wiiiie on the other 

 liand, Manning thinks the Lawrence is deci- 

 dedly the best, so far as a partial trial will in- 

 dicate. Col. Wilder finds the Doyenne gris 

 d'Hiver Nouveau of good quality, and ripening 

 later tlian Easter Beurre; the //owe// large and 

 fine; the Triowphede Jodigne. '' good ;" iVo!/- 

 rcawPoi'/cft?/, handsome and fine; and Soldat 

 Laboreur a beautiful grower and a fine pear. 

 Van Man's Leon le Clerc. as elsewhere, cracks 

 badly witli him, and the Dix very badly. 

 Some of the woi-st looking specimens of crack- 

 ed pears observed anywhere, were on a tree of 

 the Dix. Has this new and hardy American 

 tree already reached old age? Or will it die 

 of old age at Dorchester, at the same time it is 

 flourishing in youth and vigor near Rochester? 

 A puzzling fact in relation to cracking, occurred 

 on the grounds of the writer, — a young Do.y- 

 enne pear on new ground, while bearing its 

 first crop, became dotted with black specks, 

 precisely like those of leaf blight, on both 

 leaves and fruit at the same time, and the fruit 

 cracked and was worthless. Tliis was some 

 years ago, and has not been repeated. Not far 

 distant, on very similar soil, stood another old 

 Doyenne tree, bearing yearly six to twelve 

 bu.<;hels of uniformly fair fru'it. This fact is 

 very adverse to the i\^(-'OYy oi exhaustion of soil 

 by trees of long standing. 



Robert Manning has found only two of 

 Knight's penrs of much value, the £)/ejfooc/ and 

 Moccas. The 3Ionarch. after a vast amount 



of pains to get it correct, proves after all, of no 

 great value. Manning's Elizabeth, he regards 

 as one of tlie finest early pears. The Duchesse 

 d' Orleans ])romises to become very valuable. 

 Of Gov, Eewards' new sorts, the Calhoun 

 proves the best, and the Dallas a good fruit; 

 the others not so worthy of notice. 



Standards on Quince. — Those sorts which 

 grow freely and endure well on the Ciuince, as 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey, Angoulemc, Glout 

 Morceau, &c., may be set out in orchards and 

 trained standard height. Specimens thus treat- 

 ed, more than twenty years old, bearing usual- 

 ly several bushels a year, were observed in a 

 fine condition in the gardens of S. Walker 

 and M. P. Wilder. The Langelier and Bous- 

 sock promise to be good for this purpose. — J. 

 J. T. in Cult. 



Agricultural Jokes. — Punch, in the follow- 

 ing, wants to put the new reaping machine to a 

 novel use : 



Mr. Punch presents his compliments to Mr. 

 Hu.ssey, and hearing that his reaping machin"^ is 

 the best for corn-cutting, will feel obliged by one 

 being sent immediately, as he wishes to cut his 

 own corns. Mr. Punch would not have troubled 

 the celebrated American Hussey, but his own 

 wife, Judy, is such a lazy hussey that she Avill 

 not perform the operation required. 



An enlightened agriculturist out West, thinks 

 the best way to make farmers grow Madder, is 



TO POKE 'em with SHARP STiCKs! 



Pennsylvania IIort. Society' — Nov. 18, 

 1851. — The President in the chair. A collec- 

 tion of plants in pots, by John Lambert's gar- 

 dener, was interesting. This being the show 

 night for Chrysanthemums, there were eight 

 collections presented, in which were many of 

 the choicest kinds; and were from Robert Bu- 

 ist's, James Dundas', George North's, John Lam- 

 bert's, A. Parker's, and Caleb Cope's grounds; 

 the collection from the latter consisted of those 

 new and beautiful varieties called Lilliputian, 

 which have been recently iniported, and for the 

 first time shown; they are decidedly the pretti- 

 est of this tribe of plants. From the same 

 source was seen another of those exquisit<3ly 

 beautiful baskets of cut flowers, which for seve- 

 ral meetings past have graced the tables. contain- 

 ing the choicest flowers of the green-house, of 

 which many were from air plants, but as at the 

 last occasion, the crowning flower was the Victo- 

 ria Regia, the 24th production of the plant ; 

 although of smaller proportions than those 

 borne by the plant when in full vigor, still it 

 was a perfect gem, and much admired, 

 the fruits were seen beautiful specimens of pea 





