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was called the "Ice King," being the first to establish 

 that trade on an extensive scale in our commerce. Here 

 on this rough and rock-bound coast, over whose bold 

 promontory the dashing waves and surging spray con- 

 tinue still to beat, he commenced a large garden on a 

 spot without a tree or shrub upon it ; and by enclosing 

 it with high, double-pale fences to break the wind, he 

 succeeded in producing many fine fruits. In the year 

 1849 he exhibited a basket of Louise Bonne of Jersey 

 pears, one of which measured over ten inches in cir- 

 cumference, and weighed thirteen and three-fourths 

 ounces. The trees and vines of this garden, which 

 the writer visited a few years since, were then in a 

 healthful and productive condition. Mr. Tudor at- 

 tached to the pears of which we have spoken the fol- 

 lowing note : " The whole circumference of ten fruits 



This must be my excuse for writing this note, and inviting your attention to 

 a small basket of fruit produced at this place. 



What I would principally call your attention to is a fruit, a seedling, resem- 

 bling the Seckel, but produced from a tree growing entirely different from the 

 Seckel, and having thorns not worked. Also to three pears, which have this 

 year been produced from trees varying in age from twenty to sixty years. A 

 cluster of Brown Beurres ; of these I have three trees, which bore perfect 

 fruit for the first time in thirteen years, although every year they have pro- 

 duced fruit ; all the previous years the fruit has been bad. Two fruits of the 

 old St. Germain, so rare as almost to be forgotten. Of these I have a few 

 dozen, produced on an old free stock tree, which this year, for the first time 

 in a long course of years, has produced no good fruit. 



Three fruits of the old St. Michael, or White Doyenne, the product of old 

 trees which I brought here thirteen years ago, and which have every year pro- 

 duced fruit, but always crooked and spotted. This year there is a near ap- 

 proach to good specimens. A few specimens of my other fruit to fill the bas- 

 ket, although I am sending coals to Newcastle. 



This has been a year of too redundant production, partly owing to the ab- 

 sence of production last year, and partly to the great quantity of rain we have 

 had during the summer. 



It has been a year for producing large-sized fruit, but of low flavor. I hope 

 the Horticultural Society will appoint a competent person to write something 

 on the last season, and the cause of the restoration of the lost fruits, which I 

 suppose other gentlemen have experienced besides myself. 



I am, very truly, FREDERIC TUDOR. 



