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well : it WIS planted eight years ago, and is supposed to be a 

 cross between the White Doyenne and the Seckel. 



To show what can be done in the way of removing large 

 trees, Mr. Tudor pointed out to us an apple tree removed from 

 Cambridge in 1843 ; it was then twentij-sevcn inches in cir- 

 cumference ; now it is full of fruit, and measures thirty-eight 

 inches round ! Espalier pear trees, of very large size, were 

 bought of the late S. G. Perkins, seven or eight years ago, 

 and have grown vigorously, and borne fruit annually. Among 

 the new pears, we noticed Doyenne Goubault in bearing; 

 also, St. Michael Archangel, which is quite distinct from the 

 old St. Michael, though the latter is often received from 

 France for that variety. 



Mr. Tudor is trying a series of experiments to ascertain, if 

 possible, the cause of the cracking of the St. Michael or 

 White Doyenne, and some other pears. He thinks our hot 

 sun is a principal cause of it, and, to test this, he has had a 

 paling erected sufficiently high to shade the tree : but, as the 

 fruit buds were destroyed, the experiment will have to be 

 continued another year. If, after a fair trial, the sun is not 

 found to produce cracking, other experiments will be made, 

 to ascertain, if possible, how this delicious pear can be 

 brought back to its former excellence, in all soils and situa- 

 tions. With Mr. Tudor's enthusiasm, pomologists may be 

 assured, that no pains nor expense will be spared to accom- 

 plish liis views. 



The cherry succeeds admirably in Mr. Tudor's garden, 

 trained as espaliers ; some of the trees cover four or five hun- 

 dred square feet, and produce abundantly. The peach, Mr. 

 Tudor has not foimd to succeed well ; the precarious time for 

 the crop is in June, when, from some cause, the fruit all 

 drops from the trees. We never saw finer currants than were 

 growing here ; the bushes loaded with fruit. Mr. Tudor has 

 tried the mode of catching insects in broad-mouthed bottles, 

 which we gave an account of, four years ago, (Vol. Xll, p. 

 467;) hy coimting the insects in o?ie bottle, and making an 

 estimate of the whole number suspended from the trees, the 

 enormous quantity of one hundred and ten thousand were 

 caught in thirty-six hours. 



Mr. Tudor's grounds are not only in themselves worthy of 



