300 Summer Pruning Pyramidal Pear Trees. 



regular in its form, with a larger stone, entirely separating 

 from the flesh. 



The tree is vigorous, of handsome form, and an abundant 

 bearer : the young wood is reddish : the leaves are oval, 

 elliptical, attenuated at the base, pointed at the summit ; with 

 short petioles, little downy beneath, serrated on the edges. 



The trees were first disseminated from the establishment 

 of Van Houtte, last autumn, at the high price of fifty francs 

 (ten dollars) each ; and if equal to the account given of it, 

 it will prove a decided acquisition to our catalogue of plums. 

 It is described in the Belgian catalogues as the ne plus -ultra 

 of plums. 



Art. IY. A few hi?its on Summer Prunitig Pyramidal 

 Pear Trees. By the Editor. 



We have already, more than once, promised our readers the 

 full details of the method of summer pruning pyramidal pear 

 trees, as practised by ourselves on our specimen trees, of 

 which we have upwards of a thousand, nearly one half of 

 them in bearing, — or rather would have been but for the 

 severe winter. — for many of them were literally covered with 

 flower-buds in April. Not only have we lost the opportunity 

 of fruiting many new sorts which have never yet borne in 

 the country, but the opportunity, also, to test the accuracy of 

 many doubtful sorts for at least 07ie year, and, more than all, 

 the chance of securing some accurate drawings of a few of our 

 finest specimen trees in full fruit, that our pomological 

 friends might have the pleasure of seeing a pyramidal tree 

 five years old in the full vigor of growth and productiveness. 



These reverses, beyond our control, are our apology for 

 not giving our article in the June number as we anticipated, 

 for we had intended it should be as complete as it was our 

 ability to make it. Not only did we intend to show how 

 summer pruning should be performed, but to give a Daguer- 

 reotype illustration of a tree which had been so pruned, and 

 in full bud, just as it would appear after the frosts of au- 

 tumn had shorn it of its foliage. This we promise yet to do. 



