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A New and Vnliitihle Pear, 



A first-class seedling pear from the Bartlett 

 (known in Europe as the Williams' Bon 

 Chretien) has been raised by M. Morel, of 

 Vaise-Lyon, France, and is figured in a 

 recent colored frontispiece of The Revi/.e 

 Horticole. The fruit is of good size, and 

 handsome in shape and color ; the flesh is 

 white, fine-grained, melting, juicy, and agree- 

 ably acidulous ; ripening from the end of 

 September to the middle of October or later. 

 The tree is an abundant bearer, and it also 

 does well on the Quince. It is recommended 

 by M. Carriere as being in every respect of 

 first-rate quality. We call special attention 

 of American nurserymen to the propriety of 

 introducing it into America. 



Colostal Asparayns. 



A correspondent of The Gardener''s Chron- 

 icle, who tried the Conover's Colossal Aspara- 

 gus, although with some incredulity, at last is 

 forced to say : " In point of size, this is a 

 colossal variety, it far exceeds the Giant or 

 Battersea of the same age, and under the 

 same cultivation. In fact, the principal part 

 of the stems on the one year old beds of Con- 

 over's, are as stout as those on the oldest and 

 best beds of the old kinds. For forcing, 

 Conover's Colossal will be an acquisition ; it 

 comes earlier than the other kind." 



Another Hutnhun. 



The Gardener\ Chronicle favors its readers 

 with a laughable description of a new humbug, 

 just turned up there, and imported from 

 America. (We never heard of it here, al- 



though it might possibly have appeared in 

 places remote from the head centres. Most of 

 the humbugs palmed off on Americans, are 

 engineered by foreigners from England, 

 France and P^'ussia.) This is the title of 

 the label : 



Veni, Vidi, Mtiltum in Parvo. 

 The Corean 



OR THE 



Bloom of Paradise. 



This sweet and beautiful scented grass plant 

 sheds its sweet fragrance over the house all the 

 year round. The seeds can be planted any time in 

 the year, in dirt, sponge or cotton in a tumbler. 



It does not give out its beautiful fragrance under 

 ten or twelve days, and lasts five months before 

 going to seed; water as other plants. 



Price of packages, 15 cts., or 2 for 25 cts.; 800 

 seeds in each i:)ackage. 



Rules for Planting. 



In sponge, wet well; in dirt, sprinkle the dirt 

 over them, and water as other plants. 



An Extriiorditiary Pear Tree. 



A photograph has been forwarded to Eng- 

 land, which has aroused the astonishment of 

 their distinguished men. It is taken of a 

 branch of pears grown from a tree on the 

 ranch of Mr. Kercheval, near Sacramento, Cal., 

 The branch was 4 feet 6 inches long ; carried 

 265 pears (most of which were about 5 inches 

 in length), the whole weighing about 110 lbs. 



Aniericnti Passion for Floivers. 



It is stated that more bouquets (not button- 

 hole) are made up in a single month in the 

 city of New York than in the course of a 

 whole year in the city of London. This is, 

 perhaps, a trifling exaggeration, but Mr. 

 Dickens said very much the same thing in 

 writing of his American experience several 

 years ago, so that it is evident that our love 

 for flowers is sufiiciently conspicuous to attract 

 the attention of foreigners. 



Plue Glass. 



The Philadelphia experiments of General 

 Pleasanton upon the organic influence of the 

 violet ray have been repeated in France, and 

 M. A. Poey has communicated to M, Elie de 

 Beaumont, a letter on the influence of violet 

 ray upon the growth of the vine, pigs and 

 cattle. 



