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long, and so thickly, that they crowd upon each other ; in 

 this short space, we counted sixty large and beautiful apples. 

 The St. Lawrence, which is highly esteemed by some cultiva- 

 tors, we saw here in bearing, but the season was rather late, 

 and the crop had nearly all been gathered ; what few remained 

 were large and handsome ; it commands a ready sale in the 

 Rochester Market. 



Another tree, to us very interesting, was a Swan's Orange 

 pear. Passing through the orchard, in company with Mr. 

 Bissell, our attention was called to a young tree, perhaps 

 twenty feet high, branched nearly to the ground, and 

 loaded with some of the finest looking pears we ever saw ; 

 this was the Swan's Orange, — a tree grafted about twelve 

 years ago, on a sucker ^re feet high, as Mr. Langworthy in- 

 formed us, and now measuring seven inches in diameter at 

 the base, and bearing this year about three bushels of pears, 

 all of which Avere large and fine, varying in weight from 

 eight to iivehe ounces each. We gathered thirty-two of 

 these pears, on a branch not more than two feet long. We are 

 thus particular in noting the history of this tree, its product, 

 &c., because we consider it one of the most remarkable Amer- 

 ican varieties yet produced, and, in our opinion, standing as 

 high, taking all its qualities into consideration, asawy pear yet 

 known. Our specimens from this tree, which were gathered 

 the Sth of September, were in fine eating order from the 20th 

 of that month to the 10th of October; and specimens gathered 

 later, we ate on the last of October, making its period of ma- 

 turity about two months. Mr. Langworthy's tree was stand- 

 ing in grass ground, and had no extra cultivation ; nearly the 

 whole crop could have been gathered from the ground. It 

 bears every year. 



We have stated that Mr. Langworthy gives great attention 

 to the culture of the melon. The kinds he cultivates are 

 principally the Imperial and the Black Spanish, but the great- 

 est quantity of the former, which, though so late a variety, 

 that, in the latitude of Boston, it will not come to perfection in 

 the ordinary modes of culture, by Mr. Langworthy's plan, 

 ripens an innncnse crop. His mode is to start the plants in 

 a hotbed — the same as for cucumbers; the plants are re- 

 moved to the hills where they are to grow, as soon as the 



