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Mr. Lyman's ; and while the members must feel pleased that 

 they are enabled to offer such liberal prizes, the friends of 

 Mr. Lyman must feel highly honored in knowing that through 

 his means the progress of Horticulture will be greatly ac- 

 celerated, not only in our immediate vicinity, but throughout 

 the country. 



Many new fruits have been figured and described. Among 

 them several pears of high character, which have not yet 

 fruited in the country, but of which specimens have been 

 sent by M. Leroy, of Angers. Our readers must feel indebted 

 to him for his information, and we are glad to be able to 

 say that similar notices of new fruits of all kinds will be 

 continued. Of the Pears, which another year has proved to 

 be fine, as well as those which promise well after a single 

 trial, we may name Smith's Bordenave, Sheldon, Nouveau Poi- 

 teau, Bell Epine Dumas, Calhoun, Beurre Langelier, Ron- 

 delet, Beurre GifFart, Beurre Benoits, Collins, Duchess of 

 Berry, Monarch, Supreme de Q,uimper, Vessouziere, Doy- 

 enne du Comice, Delices d'Hardenpont de Belgique, Beurre 

 Pater Noster, &c. Of Grapes, the Gros Bleu and Wilmot 

 Black Hamburgh No. 16. Of Plums, the Reine Claude de 

 Bavay ; and of Peaches, the Reine des Yierges and Stetson's 

 Seedling. Our Pomological Gossip will give the details re- 

 garding many of them. 



Floriculture. 

 There is a steadily, but not rapidly, increasing taste for 

 plants ; not so rapid as we could wish, or hope, to see. The 

 all-engrossing fruit mania has dampened the ardor of many 

 admirers of beautiful plants, and the greater certainty of a 

 profit from the former than the latter, has induced some of 

 the former admirers of these favored forms of creative power 

 to fill their tulip beds and front-door parterres with fruit 

 trees, more especially pears. Now, though we have no 

 word of reproach to offer against the absorbing interest of 

 fruit culture, more especially the pear, — to which we have 

 ourselves devoted so much time, care and attention, — not to 

 name expense, — still we would not, — and we have not, — 



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