THE TRUE SOLDAT LABOURER. 



latter grows weary, and mind directs the operations of labor. See him stand and look 

 with delighted admiration at his sons, his educated sons, as they take hold of every kind 

 of work, and roll it off with easy motion, but with the power of mind in every stroke. 



But it is the proud mother who takes the solid comfort, and wonders that it is so easy 

 after all, when one knows how, to live at ease, enjoy the society of happy daughters and 

 contented sons, to whom the city folks make most respectful bows, and treat with special 

 deference as truly wdl-hred ladies and gentlemen. 



Now, this is no more a fancy picture than the other. It is a process that I have watched 

 in many families, and in different states. The results are everywhere alike, because they 

 are natural. The same causes will always produce the same effects, varying circumstan- 

 ces only modifying the intensity." 



A NOTE ON THE TRUE SOLDAT LABOUREUR PEAR. 



BY F. L. OLMSTED, SOUTHSIDE, STATEN ISLAND, N. Y. 



Mt Dear Sir: Two and three years since, I planted one thousand pear trees, embrac- 

 ing most of the varieties that are much esteemed on quince stock. Most of them fruited 

 last year, but a few varieties not 

 till this. Among the latter is one 

 which I have never seen described 

 in any American publication, and 

 which has given me more satisfac- 

 tion than any other. 



I received a dozen trees from 

 Messrs. Parsons & Co., which 

 they had received from France 

 with the label Soldat Laboureur, 

 but believed to be identical with the 

 Beurre d' j^remburgh ; the fruit, 

 however, proves to be quite diffe- 

 rent from that well known sort, as 

 well as from Glout Morceau, or 

 anything else that I know. The 

 trees have made a strong, healthy, 

 upright, and naturally regular and 

 pyramidal growth, out-stripping 

 everything else that I have, except 

 possibly, Beurre d'^malis; the 

 shoots of this season, on all parts 

 of the tree, being in every case, on 

 an average, three feet in length. 

 The fruit answers to the following 



description, which I have to-day True SoUlat Lafioureur 



received from your French correspondent, M. Desportes, as that of the true Soldat La- 

 boureur, which is by no means, he says, to be confounded with the Orpheline d'Eu 

 (^Beurre d'jlremburgh as known here,) though it long has been. 



