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foot and a half of the ground, while the Col. 

 Wilder was uninjured, and bore fruit in 

 1S47 of good size. During the summer of 

 1847 it sent up a very stout shoot, from 

 which, in the fall and winter, many cuttings 

 were taken and sent to horticultural friends 

 in various parts of the country. After 

 taking off these cuttings from the top and 

 branches, the plant was still eight feet 

 high, and fruited, the present season, to its 

 summit. The fruit commenced ripening 

 on the 15th of June ; and from that time it 



continued to have ripe fruit, in abundance, 

 till the first day of August, when the old 

 wood was cut away. The original stool 

 stands in my yard, on the west side of a 

 board fence, six feet, four inches high. 

 This variety is uncommonly vigorous. 

 Pxickles white, — leaf, much crimped, — 

 fruit as large as the Fastolff, roundish, 

 cream coloured, semi-transparent, glazed, 

 with prominent pips. Flavor fine. 



I remain, my dear sir, very sincerely, 

 yours, W. D. Brinckle. 



THB ONONDAGA AND OTHER PEARS ON QUINCE STOCKS. 



BY P. BARRY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



In your " Domestic Notices," of last month, | strange, as it grew so well on the quince 

 it is stated by Mr. Henry H. Crapo, of 

 New-Bedford, that he has succeeded badly 

 with the Onondaga on quince stocks 



I 



am surprised at this, inasmuch as it grows 

 admirably with us, and in all the nurseries 

 and gardens here, where it has been so 

 worked. Failures, such as Mr. Crapo's, 

 occur frequently in the propagation of trees, 

 and it is difficult to detect the real cause. 

 We cannot yet say how durable it may be, 

 or how it may bear; but certain it is, that, 

 so far, it grows well. We have at the pre- 

 sent moment, growing in the nurseries 

 here, more than 1000 trees from 2^ to 4 

 feet in height, quite stout, and many of 

 them well branched, the growth of the pre- 

 sent season, on small quince stocks. In- 

 deed, it grows better than White Doyenne, 

 Bartlett, or Madeleine. Mr. Crapo must 

 try farther. The first season that we work- 

 ed the pear on quince stock, extensively, 

 our Eeaster Beurres were a complete fail- 

 ure ; they grew 10 or 12 inches, while 

 others in the same row, and on same sort 

 of stocks precisely, and worked on the same 

 day, were 4 to 5 feet. We thought it ! 



in France ; we tried again, and it grows 

 well — not tall, but stout and bushy. So 

 with Seckel ; the first year we worked it 

 on quince it failed ; last year and this we 

 have had as fine and as vigorous a growth 

 as we ever have on pear stocks,* and so on, 

 with many other kinds. 



The Osband's Summer, or Summer Vir- 

 galieu, grows and bears well on the quince, 

 and is one of our very best early pears, — 

 superior, as we think, to the Bloodgood ; 

 certainl)'^ more beautiful, and as early — in 

 our markets this season about the 6th of 

 August. 



The Doyenne cfete, quite similar to the 

 foregoing, but ripening two weeks later, — 

 grows and bears exceedingly well on the 

 quince. This is one of the finest pears of 

 its season. The Bloodgood, Dearborn's 

 Seedling, Tyso?i, Buffum, Stevens'' Genesee, 

 Oswego Beurre, all fine American pears ; 

 grow freely on the quince, and I have no 

 doubt will bear well. We should have 

 been able to speak more certainly on the 



* The Seckel is one of those Mr. Rivers says requires 

 double working, (Hort., vol. 2, page 70.) 



