Nurskrymen's Reputatiox. — Some of the State reports speak of nurserymen as persons of rather 

 doubtful reputation, and " nur.-erynieu's humbugs" are sometimes alluded to. We do not think 

 tliis is unjust; fori with some very honorable exceptions, that profession, more tlian any other, 

 has been filled in this country by quacks and pretenders. We happen to know a few who have 

 so very little knowledge of pomology as not to be able to distinguish some of the most common 

 fi'uits — who positively, for instance, do not know a Baldwin from a Spitzenberg, nov a BartlM 

 from an Urhaniste, — who succeed in crowding annually thousands of dollars worth of trees into 

 market, and who impose vast numbers of spurious sorts on the public. They sell a little 

 "cheaper," and this explains the whole. While these things are so, we are willing the "profes- 

 sion" shall have its richl}--earned reputation ; and those who are capable and honest, must build 

 a character on their individual merits. — Country Gentleman. 



Tlie Country Gentleman is right. The country is overrun with persons who represent 

 themselves as nurserymen, or agents of nurserymen, while tliey are merely unprincipled 

 speculators, endeavoring to live and fatten upon the credulity of the public and the well- 

 earned reputation of honest nurserymen. The man who buys trees from any one, without 

 demanding the most satisfactory evidence that he is a reliable and responsible nurseryman, 

 or the agent of such, deserves to be cheated, and we have no sympathy for him. 



Pears from Boston. — Herewith I send you, from Messrs. Curtis <fe Lincoln, a sample of Easter 

 Bcurre Pears, such as they have exhibited of late at our Society. Mr. Curtis listened to the 

 remarks made by yourself and Messrs. Josiah Stickney and B. V. French, at the time the Pear 

 was under discussion, during the holding of the Pomological Convention in this city, and think- 

 ing you were not so favorably impressed in regard to this variety, has requested me to forward 

 these, that you may test and report on the same. Such Pears readily sell at from two to five 

 dollars per dozen. Egen Wight, Chairman of Fruit Committee. — Boaton, Mass. 



Dr. Wight and Messrs. Curtis and Lincoln will please accept our thanks for the box of 

 Pears. They were well ripened and delicious; but Mr. Curtis is mistaken in regard to our 

 opinion of the merits of this fruit, as he will see by referring to page 158 of the proceedings 

 of the last session of the Pomological Society. 



Dr. Warder, of Cincinnati, passed through Rochester, on the 24th of February, on his 

 way to the annual meeting of the National Agricultural Society at Washington. He 

 informed us that when he left home, people were planting Peas and Potatoes. Here we 

 had from one to three feet of snow, with the thermometer, off and on, about zero ! The 

 Doctor, by the way, is trying to resuscitate his magazine ; and we hope he will succeed. 

 Men who display such courage, deserve success. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has issued its schedule of premiums for 1S55. Will 

 the editor, at his earliest convenience, examine it for the benefit of his numerous readers? 



With pleasure ; but we have not received it. Indeed, we seldom receive an account of 

 the proceedings of horticultural societies until they are too stale to be of much interest. 

 If societies are not disposed to give their doings publicity through a proper medium, it is 

 their loss more than ours. 



TowNSEND Glover, Esq., is at present in Philadelphia, engaged in preparing figures to 

 elucidate the depredatii)ns of insects on fruit trees and other plants, for the Patent 



