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CoJmar, most certainly require a wall lo bring them to perfection, as is also 

 the case in the northern departments of France, and in Belgium ; but our 

 best new varieties give the very finest fruit from pyramidal trees on the 

 quince stock. 



It is not a fact " that pears are far more liable to canker upon quince 

 stocks than upon their own ;" quite the contiary, as I can prove to "Ab- 

 dalonymus," if he will come and see me. Very many sorts that canker and 

 are unfruitful here, when grafted on the pear stock, are fruiiful and healthy 

 in the highest degree when worked on the quince. I will here venture to 

 repeat what I have before written in your pages, that the " Louise Bonne, 

 of Jersey," grafted on the pear here, and growing in a light sandy loam, 

 seldom or never bears clean fruit ; they are always spotted and diseased, and 

 its shoots are often cankered and unhealthy. 1 have this month taken oif 

 the heads, for the purpose of re-grafting some fine trees 15 years old, on 

 this account, and have just finished a plantation of 2000 trees of this sort on 

 the quince to grow fruit for Covent-garden market, only because it does so 

 well. Your correspondent does not give any account of his experience ; his 

 letter seems to me all empty assertion. 



Pears upon quince stocks do not " require several years before they come 

 into a bearing state ;" they often bear the second year from the bud or 

 graft, and the third year they will bear abundantly. I am not at all sur- 

 prised at your correspondent being " completely" baflfled ; he has not per- 

 severed as I have. The fruit from pyramidal trees on the quince occasion- 

 ally root pruned is not " small and deficient in juice ;''' the finest- flavored 

 pears I have ever tasted, in this country and in France, have b en the prod- 

 uce of trees of this description; there is always much more piquancy of 

 flavor than in pears from walls. I can state rather a stubborn fact in sup- 

 port of this. 1 sent last October some sieves of Louise Bonne of Jersey, to 

 Covent-garden market. My salesman reported to me that " they were the 

 best he had ever seen or tasted." 



Now, as to duration : " to die in a few years" will not be the fate of trees 

 worked on the quince ; witness the healthy trees in the gardens of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society at Chiswick, which are now more than 20 years old. I 

 have seen trees on the continent more than 40 years old equally healthy. 

 Surely this is enough of duration for any earden trees, and for any man of 

 moderate wishes. — {Gard. Chron., 1848, p. 100.) 



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New York State Agricvhural Society.— The list of premiums for the next 

 annual Fair, to he held at Buffalo, September next, is published in the Al- 

 bany Journal, and we shall endeavor to find room for that portion of itrelat- 

 infT to Fruits and Flowers, in our next. The facilities of communication by 



