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Boston, thus showing that the winter did not affect all locali- 

 ties alike. In Salem there is scarcely any pears ; even Mr. 

 Manning's great collection of trees is almost barren of fruit. 



The quenoiiille trees, which we mentioned in our last notice 

 of this place, (Vol. IX, p. 423,) and which had then just 

 been planted, were now many of them full of fruit ; they 

 are exceedingly well managed, and though Mr. Johnson does 

 not tie down the branches to the extent that is usual in 

 this style, by the French gardeners, yet they are sufficiently 

 so to have a good effect, and to have the desired object of 

 bringing the trees earlier into bearing. The branches are 

 fastened down by exceedingly fine wires, which have one 

 end made fast to a peg in the soil, and at a short dis- 

 tance they are scarcely perceptible. Louise Bonne of Jersey 

 and others, were producing a good crop. The Rostiezer, Mr. 

 Johnson considers not inferior to the Seckel, and we fully 

 agree with him, that it is one of the most delicious of all 

 pears. 



Mr. Johnson pointed out to us the beds of our seedling 

 strawberry, from which he gathered seven hundred quarts of 

 fine fruit the present summer. They occupy, in all, less 

 than seven thousand feet of land, in four separate beds, with 

 a few Virginias intermixed as fertilizers ; this shows the pro- 

 duce to be about four thousand Jive hundred quarts to the 

 acre ; taking the quantity of ground, a crop, we venture to 

 state, never exceeded, if equalled, in this Ancinity, or, we 

 think we may safely say, in any part of the country. 



The Buckthorn hedge, which separates the front from the 

 back garden has been well managed. It was planted in 

 1841, and was now eight feet high, three feet through at the 

 base, and trimmed in the form of an inverted V. No better 

 specimen could be desired, and an inspection of it will fully 

 convince any one that it is the best plant we yet have for a 

 hedge. Two shearings a year keep it in perfect order. 



The blackberry, as well as the raspberry, is cultivated in 

 great perfection here, the principal stock of the latter being 

 the Franconia, which Mr. Johnson likes on account of its 

 bearing-carriage so well. The blackberries were just now- 

 beginning to bear, but we are inclined to think they will soon 

 become indispensable additions to every garden. The rich 



