lyo Notes and Gleanings. 



varieties at the State Fair, and took the first premium over all competitors. The 

 following is a hst of varieties cultivated : — 



Howell, one of the most promising. Belle Lucrative, Bartlett, Beurre Diel. 

 Dearborn's Seedling bore half a bushel to a tree — considers it the best early 

 pear ; specimens we saw on the trees measured two and a half inches in diam- 

 eter. White Doyenne, Duchess, Tyson, Graslin ; this last is very productive. 

 The Clapp's Favorite he thinks well of Flenkel, Beurre Sterkman ; this, the 

 sixth year, has a full croj). Buflfum, handsome grower, some made five to six feet 

 this season. Brandywine, very fine tree. Beurre d'Anjou, Seckel, Louise Bonne, 

 Ott's Seedhng, Lodge, Beurre Giflfard. This last, Mr. Given says, is next best 

 to Dearborn's Seedling for early bearing. Beurre d'Amalis, set out three years 

 ago, grew over seven feet this season ; is now twelve feet high. Alexandrina, 

 Doyenne d'Alen9on, Lawrence, prodigious grower. De Tongres, Urbaniste, 

 Rostiezer, fruit rich and sweet, equal to Seckel. Doyenne du Cornice, Merriam, 

 Winter Nelis, Excelsior, Gerardin, Admirable, Sheldon, Swan's Orange, Dana's 

 Hovey, Easter Beurre, Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Kingsessing, St. Michael Arch- 

 ange, Beurre Superfin, Glout Morccan., Josephine de Malines, Jaminette, Made- 

 leine, St. Ghislain, Vezouziere, Manning's Elizabeth, Beurre Hardy, Belle Epine 

 Dumas, Andrews, General Totleben, Bloodgood, Beurre Langlier, Flemish Beau- 

 ty, Nouveau Poiteau, Beurre Clairgeau, Vicar of Winkfield, Uvedale's St. Ger- 

 man, Baronne de Mello, Beurre Bosc, Dix, Doyenne d'Ete, Kirtland. 



We are satisfied that this list is too large, and Mr. Given will no doubt find 

 some of these varieties very unproductive and unprofitable. But as he grows 

 them for pleasure more than for profit, it is well for Iowa growers that Mr. Given 

 is making the experiment with so large a variety. We hope to watch this pear 

 orchard for several years hence, and by the aid of its owner report its behavior. 

 Mr. Given has also upon his grounds twenty peach trees, twelve cherry, and half 

 a dozen plum trees ; thirty varieties of hybrid perpetual roses ; some of these 

 have made five to six feet this season ; four or five varieties of climbing roses, 

 that have run upon his portico ten to twelve feet high ; also all the small fruits. 

 We also saw an enormous caladium, with leaves three feet long. 



Mr. Given anticipates planting out a large pear orchard, and says he is satis- 

 fied that he can grow more bushels of pears from a given amount of land than 

 any man in Iowa can of apples. He is enthusiastic in horticulture, and his 

 efforts and results are worth noting. Iowa Hoviestcad. 



Another " Patent " Process. — Mr. Sullivan Hutchinson has patented a 

 method of propagating fruit trees by grafting small roots into the branches of 

 bearing trees, placing a box of earth around them. No doubt such trees would 

 bear very speedily, but it is a good deal more trouble to carry the root to the 

 graft than the graft to the root. 



Osage Orange Plants. A single nursery firm in Illinois advertise the 

 enormous number of fifty million Osage Orange plants. At six inches apart 

 these would plant nearly five. thousand miles of hedge — a pretty long piece, but 

 a very small part of all the fencing in the United States. 



