158 Descriptio7is of Select Varieties of Pears. 



The following dried bottle herbs may be purchased in Covent 

 Garden Market, viz. : — Knotted marjoram, parsley, thyme, 

 mint, basil, lemon thyme, soup herbs of many sorts mixed, 

 savory, sage, pennyroyal, celery seed for soup, tarragon, 

 mixed herbs for stuffing ; powdered shallot, mushrooms, and 

 garlic ; and why not onions, for long voyages ? Herbs bot- 

 tled and sealed over keep a long time. 



Dried herbs are looked upon by many as not worth notice ; 

 and unless a better plan of saving them during winter is 

 followed out, it is hardly worth while growing them ; but if 

 the drying system were adopted, then they could be dried 

 off-hand in autumn, and at once placed in the hands of the 

 cook, where they would at all times be ready for use. 



Art. III. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Pears. By the Editor. 



We continue om- descriptions of select pears from our last 

 volume. The past year, much more favorable to the pear 

 crop than the previous one, has afforded the opportunity of 

 not only testing the quality of many of the new and recently 

 introduced varieties, but has given us the chance to fortify 

 our opinions respecting; others which had previously fruited, 

 but on younger trees, which had not acquired that strength 

 to enable them to produce specimens in anything like the 

 perfection of older ones of maturer growth. 



One or two of the varieties we now describe have not yet 

 fruited in the country, nor have the trees ever been intro- 

 duced till the present spring. The specimens were among 

 the number sent to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 by M. Leroy, of Angers ; but they were of such evident 

 superiority that we embrace this early opportunity to give a 

 full account of them with outlines of the fruit. We have 

 no doubt, from the fact that other pears sent by M. liCroy, 

 already known here, were no better than our own, that these 

 new ones will prove valuable additions to our collections. 



