4 Retrospeciive View of the 



the tree languishes and dies : this by some is set down as 

 proof that the quince will not answer: if, however, a good 

 list was at hand, that cultivators might know what those 

 kinds are which will not succeed, they could guard against 

 such disappointment, and their prejudice be thus dispelled. 

 This is what we hope, ere long, to be able to give. Mr. Riv- 

 ers has added a list of such kinds as do well upon the quince 

 at the page referred to, and also a list of such as will not suc- 

 ceed ; but this should be extended to the whole catalogue of 

 good sorts. Many of our native pears, of which Mr. Rivers 

 has had no experience, seem particularly obnoxious to the 

 quince, and we have seen trees four years old and not two 

 feet high. 



Double grafting obviates this, as Mr. Rivers has stated; 

 and it should therefore be the duty of every nurseryman, no 

 less than the pleasure of every cultivator, to have on hand a 

 good stock of those kinds which unite kindly, and grow rap- 

 idly upon the quince. Upon these can be grafted what are 

 termed the "refractory" varieties, and thus, with only the 

 loss of one more year, every variety of the pear can be pro- 

 duced upon the quince. 



The thorn, the mountain ash, and the apple, have been 

 recommended as a stock for the pear : of the latter, our cor- 

 respondent, Mr. Humrickhouse, has already shown, (Vol. 

 XII. p. 393,) that it cannot be relied upon with any hope of 

 good or profitable results : the same may, we think, be said 

 of the mountain ash. The thorn, from what little experience 

 we have had, we think much more favorably of Seckel 

 pears in our collection, now four years old, have grown ad- 

 mirably, and the last year produced some fruit : but success 

 will depend upon the union of the stock and scion below the 

 ground, to prevent the latter from overgrowing the former, and 

 endangering the tree from high winds. 



The culture of the grape has greatly extended within a 

 few years, and the superiority of the fruit over that of former 

 years attests the attention which has been bestowed upon its 

 cultivation. We have endeavored, by a series of articles in 

 our several volumes, to give all the information which the 

 amateur could want in the management of the grapery or cold 

 house : and, in our last volume, our article on its growth in 



