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vinous, sugary, very free from grit, except a little near the 

 core, which is small. The seeds are small, roundish, but well 

 filled. 



The variety is considered a great acquisition ; it ripens in 

 October. The tree forms a handsome pyramid, with an up- 

 right stem and of stiff growth. It promises to be a fine pear. 



Two New Varieties of CIuince. — Messrs. Veitch & Co., 

 of the Exeter Nurseries, exhibited at one of the meetings of 

 the London Horticultural Society two new sorts of quince, 

 introduced into England, among other fruits from Syria, by 

 the late Mr. Barker — one named the Monster quince, resem- 

 bled the Portugal a good deal, and the other, which was 

 named " Aukshe Ker," looked something like the large pear- 

 shaped quince. They were both fine looking sorts, and were 

 reported to be excellent, and very highly perfumed. " The 

 fruit," wrote Messrs. Veitch, " is said to be eaten in Syria as a 

 dessert. The two examples of No. 1, and one of No. 2, are 

 from standards in the open ground ; the other fruit of No. 2, 

 is from a plant in a pot in an orchard house. They appear 

 far more vigorous in their growth than the old quince. We 

 have them as standards with fine clear straight stems five feet 

 high, and we have no doubt that they will prove valuable 

 stocks for pears." A new vigorous growing quince would 

 be a great acquisition as a stock for dwarf pears, and we hope 

 these sorts will prove as Messrs. Veitch anticipate. 



New English Strawberries. — In our last volume we 

 gave a brief account of some of the new varieties of straw- 

 berries recently brought to notice among the English culti- 

 vators. Three of them we have now in full bearing, and 

 they give promise of being valuable acquisitions. The kinds 

 are Capt. Cook, Fillbasket, and Ingram's Prince of Wales. 

 Like the larger part of the English kinds they are large and 

 very late, and will not ripen this year till the 1st of July, 

 when we shall give some further account of them, with de- 

 scriptions of several other new ones, which attracted great 

 attention at the exhibitions of the London Horticultural Soci- 

 ety last year. Unlike any of the English kinds that we have 

 heretofore cultivated, the above sorts are quite hardy — as much 



