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worthy the attention of cultivators. Ripening at about the same season, 

 October 1, is another seedling pear, raised by Mr. Tudor, at Naliant. This 

 also is a pear of medium size, ratlier flattened, obovate form, of a yellowish 

 green color, tinged with blush, of a pleasant flavor, sweet and good, sub- 

 ject, however, to the serious drawback of a liability to rot at the core. In 

 addition to the preceding, some few other seedling pears have been ex- 

 hibited the past season, but as no memoranda respecting them was pre- 

 served no attempt at a description of them can now be made. The notice 

 of the foregoing pears, of native origin, has been somewhat detailed, be- 

 cause, as such may yet prove better adapted to our climate and general 

 cultivation than those of foreign introduction, cultivators may desire early 

 information of their quality. 



With respect to the new pears of foreign origin that, for the first or even 

 second time, have been exhibited tlie past year, an enumeration of their 

 names can alone be here made, because that, in some instances, only a 

 single specimen, and that immature, picked before ripe, was exhibited, and 

 in others, for other reasons, no decided estimate of their quality would have 

 been justifiable. Neither is it to be pretended that the list given is com- 

 plete, only thai it embraces those that, on account of some particular cir- 

 cumstance attending their exhibition, particularly attracted the attention of 

 the Committee. Among the new pears then exhibited, was Beurre Dremont, 

 Beurr6 Benoist, Princess Marianne, Poire Ridelle, Charlotte de Brower, 

 Adele de St. Denis, Poire d'Albret, Poire Cire, Bezi d'Esperin, Belle Apres 

 Noel, Fondante Millot, Beurre Navez, Millot de Nancy, Louise de Prusse, 

 Bergamot Picquet, Conseilleur Raniiez, Charles Van Hooghten, Compte 

 de Paris, Baronne de Mello, Grand Soliel, Souverain d'Ete, Graine de 

 Coraile, Delices d' Alert, La Marie, Bezi Tardif, Vessouziere, Colmar du 

 Lot, Poire Caiesie, Poire Serrurier, Poire Neil, Leon le Clerc, Buchanan's 

 new Spring Beurre, Duchesse de Berry, Poire His, Glojre de Cambron, Ron- 

 delet. Poire Gerando, Poire de Mons, Rosmette, and others. 



To designate merely the particular varieties of pears, of which superior 

 specimens were exhibited, would probably subserve no valuable purpose. 

 A statement of any particular mode of culture that conduced to this supe- 

 riority might impart useful information ; but of this, if such there was in 

 any case, your Committee have no knowledge. In some instances this ex- 

 cellence may have been the result of accidental causes, as a peculiarly 

 favorable soil ; in others, of a better cultivation. The rules of the Society 

 require no statement from the exhibitors ; the awards of the Committee are 

 made from an examination of the specimens presented. 



But few new apples worthy of particular attention have been exhibited 

 the past season. Among those that should not be past by unnoticed, was 

 an apple, presented by Mrs. N. A. Plaven, of Portsmouth, on 26th of April. 

 It was a large apple, of a greenish yellow color, with fine red in the sun ; 

 sweet, fine flavored, firm fleshed, and, in the opinion of your Committee, to 

 be ranked with the very best late keeping sweet apples. The history of 

 this apple is not known to your Committee, but it is presumed to have origi- 

 nated at Portsmouth. The MacCartney apple, a seedling from West Cam- 



