THE 



AMERICAN 



GAKDENER'S MAGAZINE. 



MARCH, 1835. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notices of several of the most liighly-esteemed Flemish and 

 other Eiiropcnn Pears which have produced Fruit i:i this Vicinity, 

 together t/uih the History and Description of those Varieties which 

 have originated in this Country ; accompanied icith Observations 

 on their Cultivation. By S. Downer, Esq. 



For the information of our horticultural friends, and for the pur- 

 pose of aiding you in your endeavors to render your Magazine inter- 

 esting to your numerous readers, I offer a few observations and facts, 

 on the cultivation and developement of several of the new Flemish 

 and other European pears, that have been received in this country 

 within a few years, from different sources, and from various eminent 

 fruit-growers and nurserymen, in England, and on the Continent. 



Many of these varieties have been, with praiseworthy liberality, 

 sent to the Hon. John Lowell, by the highly distinguished President 

 of the London Horticultural Society, Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq.; 

 and by Mr. Lowell they have been distributed through the country ; 

 several have been received from Dr. Van JMons of Rrussells, one of 

 the most successful cultivators of new pears on the Continent. 



The London Horticultural Society have collected together all the 

 new fruits, amounting to over twelve hundred varieties, for the purpose 

 of correcting the synonymous names with which every catalogue 

 abounds. Mr. Robert Thompson is at the head of the fruit depart- 

 ment in their garden at Chiswick, and is the person who gave the 

 descriptions of those fruits, figured in the London Pomological Mag- 

 azine : from him R. Manning, Esq., of Salem, has lately received a 

 great number of scions, of some of the most superior kinds in the 

 above extensive collection, and we may anticipate that in a few 



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