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appearance of a Brown Beurre, bears well and is large. La 

 Herard, new, looks somewhat like the Urbaniste, but is 

 larger ; it is said to be an excellent October pear. Gideon 

 Paridant and Gustave Burgoyne, both new, look well. 



Much confusion exists among the pears denominated Cale- 

 basse Monstreuse, Calebasse Grosse, &c. M. Langelier, of 

 Jersey, described one as measuring eight inches long, and 

 weighing twenty ounces ; but the one he sent us, with this 

 description added, proves to be a worthless fruit : the Cale- 

 basse Monstreuse, of Mr. Manning, was large, but only a 

 second or third rate pear : Mr. Wilder appears now to have 

 the true one ; as a small tree was bearing two or three very 

 long pears. Doyenne Goubault is a large roundish pear, a 

 good bearer, but an ordinary looking tree. Bezi Goubault is 

 another variety of promising appearance. A variety received 

 under two or three different names, but more particularly as 

 the Vander Weyer Bates, has much the handsome appearance 

 of Louise Bonne of Jersey, and bears equally well. Beurre 

 " Knox is nothing more nor less than the Madotte, a cooking 

 pear. Kirtland's Seckel was producing a specimen or two, 

 sufficient to give a chance to try its quality. Other new 

 ones, bearing a few specimens of good appearance, were 

 Grand Soliel, St. Francois, Marshall de la Cour, La Marie, 

 Jacob, Poire Peche, Bergamot Gaudry, Beurre Bretonneau, &;c. 

 The Rostiezer is certainly one of the finest of our summer 

 pears ; hitherto we have thought it too small to give it a high 

 rank, notwithstanding its delicious, spicy, Seckel-like flavor ; 

 but its smallness has been the fault of cultivators ; this year it 

 comes up to the full size of a medium pear, being here as 

 large as the St. Ghislain, and we have seen specimens even 

 much larger from other places. It is an enormous bearer, 

 and hangs, as the usual phrase is, like "strings of onions" 

 from the tree ; we counted no less than nine handsome pears 

 from one cluster of blossoms. The beautiful colored plate 

 in our Fruits of America, which some amateurs thought too 

 large, does not near come up to the size of the specimens 

 this year. 



The nursery grounds were in excellent order, and all the 



