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We fully agree with Mr. Prince in his closing observations, 

 and have already anticipated them in our last, in our remarks 

 upon Burr's New Pine ; but it is a source of gratification to 

 find that we are supported by such good authority. It is, 

 in truth, only those strawberries " which combine size, beauty 

 of color, fine flavor and productiveness, that must now com- 

 mand precedence." We regret that we could not find the 

 leisure to visit Mr. Prince's collection, but we shall assuredly 

 do so when his latest and newest seedlings, which are to 

 surpass our own, come into bearing. 



Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. — The exhibition of this So- 

 ciety the present season, a full account of which will be 

 found in another page, was one of the most magnificent ever 

 witnessed. Especially in the fruit department was it unus- 

 ually attractive. A more favorable season has rarely been 

 experienced, and the specimens were not only brought for- 

 ward in profusion, but of a quality surpassing any previous- 

 year. Pears which heretofore have been classed among the 

 small kinds, were seen of such a size as to give them a place 

 among the largest sorts. Indeed, the experience of the 

 season has been such as to give renewed assurance to the 

 cultivators of our vicinity, that a favorable season and proper 

 attention will enable them to grow the pear to as great 

 perfection as they are capable of being produced in this 

 country. 



The following is a list of the varieties which made up the 

 prize stands at the exhibition just closed : — 



From W. R. Austin, Le Cure, White Doyenne, Easter 

 Beurre, Passe Colmar, Urbaniste, Bezi de la Motte, Beurre 

 Diel, Duchess of Angouleme, Bartlett, JBeurre d'Anjou, Louise 

 Bonne of Jersey, and Van Mons Leon le Clerc. 



From Jos. Stickney, Easter Beurre, Urbaniste, Flemish 

 Beauty, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Le Cure, Marie Louise, 

 Duchess of Angouleme, Winter Nelis, Glout Morceau, Dix, 

 Lawrence, Beurre Langelier. 



From S. Downer, Jr., Bartlett, Easter Beurre, Urbaniste, 

 Chaumontelle, Duchess of Angouleme, Louise Bonne of Jer- 



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