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are larger, bearing some two dozen fruits each. The beauty of these trees is 

 this, that every fruit is a marked specimen ; and never do we recollect seeing 

 them finer. 



Messrs. Croux et Fils, Aulnay, Lez-Sceaux, Seine, France, exhibited an 

 enormous collection of fruits of all sorts. Apples amounted to one hundred and 

 fifty varieties, and among them were some most magnificent examples. Their 

 collection of pears consisted of three hundred and twenty sorts, amongst which 

 were some exceedingly beautiful specimens. We noticed, especially, Beurre de 

 Montgeron, a very beautiful, highly-colored sort ; Beurre Spence, which is evi- 

 dently our Flemish Beauty — a pear about which there has always been a lot of 

 confusion ; Thompson's Glout Morceau, Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre Bachelier, 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, Beurre Harcly, Louise Bonne, Senateur Reveil, — anew 

 and fine-looking sort, — Madame Treyve, De Tongres, Doyenne du Comice, 

 &.C. MM. Croux also showed fifty varieties of grapes, and thirty of plums, 

 peaches, &:c. 



Messrs. Jamin & Durand, Bourg-la-Reine, France, also exhibited an enormous 

 variety of apples, pears, plums, &c. The apples and pears were, many of them, 

 exceedingly fine. Among the latter we noticed Draconon, — a large sort, in the 

 way of Easter Beurre, — Beurre Hardy, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Beurre Sterck- 

 mans, General Todtleben, — a fine-looking pear, — and Josephine de Mahnes. 



Another very large collection of apples and pears came from Messrs. Martin 

 Miiller, of Strasbourg, France. General Consul Ed. Lade, Villa Monrepos, 

 Hesse, Prussia, exhibited a very fine collection of apples, pears, grapes, nuts, &c. 



From the Horticultural Society, Bazen, Lower Tyrol, Austria, came a very 

 magnificent assortment of apples and pears, and also specimens of the Madura 

 Aurantiaca, or Osage Orange. 



Messrs. Demouilles, of Toulouse, exhibited seventy-eight varieties of apples 

 and one hundred and eighty of pears, among which the best were Williams's 

 Bon Chretien, very large and fine ; Bon Chretien de Vcrnois, a large, finely- 

 colored, good-looking sort ; Draconot, like Glout Morceau, &c. They had, 

 also, twenty-nine varieties of figs, the only presentable one being Neapolitan, 

 a dark-skinned, oblate-shaped, medium-sized fruit, and twelve varieties of plums ; 

 and of this fruit it may be said that there was not a single good dish shown. 



The exhibition of fruit trees and nursery stock formed a very interesting fea- 

 ture. Prizes were offered for all sorts of fruit trees, such as are offered for sale 

 in the different nurseries. The competition was confined to a few of the great 

 fruit tree nurseries of France, closely pressed, however, by Herr Jiirgens, of 

 Nieustadten, Holstein, the able designer of the exhibition grounds. All sorts 

 were exhibited, such as common orcliard standards, pyramids of all forms, wall 

 fruit trees, palmette espaliers, cordons, &.c. Many were extremely handsome, 

 some very fanciful, and nearly all were exceedingly good specimens, with their 

 various parts evenly and regularly proportioned. In the matter of fruit tree 

 training our continental friends are certainly a long way ahead of us. Of vegeta- 

 bles there was but a very poor display, as far as quality was concerned. Cucum- 

 bers were shown largely — but how ? Not as we ever see them in this country, 

 but big, yellow, almost ripe, and full of seeds. In this condition they are always 



