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BiiffLim, a variety not properly appreciated, were even more 

 productive than the Doyenne. Naturally upright as the 

 Buffum grows, the crop was so great, that the branches were 

 completely bent down with the weight of the fruit. The 

 trees had been in bearing three or four years, but Mr. Gay did 

 not know the name of the pear. The Early Joe apples, 

 of which there are here some fine trees, were all gathered but 

 a few inferior specimens. In the garden of Mr. Frost, who 

 cultivates the plum in fine condition, we saw a new variety, 

 called the Munroe, of oval form, with a yellow skin ; a very 

 excellent kind, and nearly equalling the Green Gage. It has 

 the good quality of hanging a great while upon the tree, shriv- 

 elling like a prune. The tree has such an upright and vig- 

 orous habit, that Mr. Bissell informed us the plums were pur- 

 chased for the stones, for the purpose of raising stocks. So 

 abundant is the crop here, that the finest plums bring but a 

 small price ; in many gardens, the ordinary kinds are scarcely- 

 considered as worth the gathering. 



Orchard of Wni. Pitkin. — The largest orchard we visited 

 was that of Mr. Pitkin, situated upon the main street, a short 

 distance from Messrs. Bissell, Hooker & Sloane's. It com- 

 prises nearly one hundred acres, embracing all the finest vari- 

 eties of apples, and in full bearing. The soil is well culti- 

 vated, and the trees enriched by green crops of clover, annually 

 ploughed in. The variety includes all the most popular 

 kinds, such as the Spitzenberg, Fameuse, Swaar, Tolman 

 Sweet, Roxbury Russet, Fall Juneating, Hawthornden, &c., 

 &/C. The amount of the annual crop we did not learn, as, 

 unfortunately, Mr. Pitkin was absent from home. 



Mr. L. B. Langworthif s Garden, about three miles from 

 the city, on the west side of the Genesee River, contains a fine 

 orchard of apples ; the Fameuse, as in other places, was 

 loaded with fruit, the branches nearly touching the ground 

 all round : it is naturally a very spreading tree. The Green 

 Sweeting is a fine winter fruit, and a good bearer ; the tree is 

 upright, and a vigorous grower. The soil here is a light 

 loam, and the trees have the same excellent cultivation which 

 we have noticed at Mr. Pitkin's. 



The Farm and Garden of J. M. Whitney, Esq., is admi- 

 rably located on the west bank of the Genesee, and comprises 



