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and have since stood, is similar to that in which the 

 seed was originally sown, light and sandy ; the trees 

 have received no injury whatever from the winter or 

 early spring. I am not aware that a single tree of 

 the lot has ever been thrown up or killed -by the 

 frost, and they have never received any protection 

 but from the hand of nature herself. 



" My budded trees have made a fine growth the 

 past season ; averaging perhaps four feet, some 

 reaching to nearly six feet in height. The trees are 

 healthy and vigorous, and prove most plainly that 

 it is not necessary for us to import pear stocks from 

 France, when they can be raised, as mine have 

 been, at home." 



In raising peach trees from the stone, our method 

 has been, to expose the stones to the frosts of 

 winter, and sow in the following spring. In the fall 

 of 1841 we thus exposed half a bushel of stones to 

 the frost, by placing them in a shallow hole in the 

 ground, slightly covered with earth, where they 

 remained until the spring ; we then cracked them 

 carefully, and sowed in rows on the 13th of April, 

 1842, in a light loamy soil. These grew well, and 

 on the first week in September, of the same season, 

 we budded nine hundred out of one thousand 

 trees. 



ON PRESERVING PEARS. 



Upon the methods resorted to for keeping the 

 finest kinds of pears, much has been written of late 



