IV 



From M. P. "Wilder, President, about 

 Messrs. "Winship, 

 Pomological Garden, Salem, 

 Samuel Walker, 

 Ebenezer Wight, 

 Otis Johnson, 

 J. L. L. F. Warren, 

 J. S. Cabot, 

 Josiah Lovett, 2d, 

 Hovey & Co., 



The beauty and qualities of these Pears cannot be represented by 

 numbers, but those who saw and tasted them can bear Avitness to their 

 great excellence in these points, and the large number of sorts will show 

 the pains that have been taken to put all on trial for the purpose of making 

 selections best suited to this climate. 



The perseverance in cultivating many varieties, of high character else- 

 where, which at first do not appear to thrive in this section of the country, 

 deserves notice, as it has been rewarded in several instances by successful 

 acclimation ; and has given rise to the decision that Pears should not be 

 rejected Avithout a fair trial of four or five successive seasons. 



Equally interesting statements respecting Apples, Grapes, Plums, &c. 

 might be drawn up, but this is sufficient for present purpose. 



As the experience acquired in the cultivation of these must of course 

 be extensive, its wide dissemination is certainly of great importance, and 

 the same is true of another object, that is, the method of keeping Fruit, in 

 the most perfect state, throughout the winter, particularly apples and 

 pears. 



Mr. Victor Paquet, of Paris, pubhshed a little work on this subject in 

 1844. He gives an extract of the printed award of the Royal Society of 

 Horticulture of Paris, decreeing a medal to him ; this states that M. 

 Paquet had on the 12th of June exhibited one hundred pears and apples, 

 and that those the judges tasted had perfectly preserved not only their 

 beauty, freshness and flavor, but even their perfume. In one year he 

 preserved seventeen thousand apples and eleven thousand pears : the finest 

 of these latter fetch sometimes three francs, (about sixty cents each,) in 

 the Paris market. 



