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rie Louise in the northern parts of England, where it produces 

 better crops and with much more certainty than the latter. 



The Eyeicood, Jllthorp crassane and Brougham are the names 

 of three of Mr. Knight's best seedlings, which have produced 

 fruit in the London Horticultural Society's garden. They are 

 stated by Mr. Thompson to be valuable varieties, and very much 

 hardier and better adapted to the climate of England, where 

 many of the Elemish kinds will not produce fruit in any perfec- 

 tion. The Althorp crassane is exceedingly buttery, melting and 

 highly flavored. The Brougham is a very great bearer, and fine 

 fruit. 



The Petre pear. — This variety was exhibited, the past fall, 

 before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by Mr. Man- 

 ning: we are not informed whether the fruit was the produce of 

 trees in his garden, or whether the specimens had been procured 

 elsewhere. We had the opportunity of tasting it, and we con- 

 sider it a very fine pear. In the Gardener''s Magazine., (vol. 

 Vni, p. 587,) is a notice of this variety, by Col. Carr, the 

 proprietor of Bartram's Botanic Garden, Philadelphia, accom- 

 panied with a cut representing the outline of the fruit. From 

 the description we learn that the tree "was raised from seed, re- 

 ceived in a letter from Lord Petre, of England, about the year 

 1735, and planted by Mr. Bartrani near one end of the dwelling- 

 house, at the edge of a gravel walk, where it has never [in 

 1832,] received any manure or rich earth. The roots extend 

 to the walls of the house. The tree has never been subject to 

 blight, and has not once failed to bear in the last thirty years; 

 some seasons producing ten or twelve bushels of fine handsome 

 fruit, which is in good eating from the middle of September to 

 Christmas." The stem of the tree in 1832 was fourteen inches 

 in diameter, and twenty-five feet high. It is now above a century 

 old, and has probably borne upwards of five hundred bushels of 

 pears. The tree was twenty-five years old before it produced a 

 single fruit, and barely escaped being cut down as barren. 



The fruit is described as of medium size, oboval, truncate at 

 both ends, swelled at the top, and three to four inches long. 

 Skin, thin, greenish-yellow, with small pale spots. Flesh, white, 

 soft, juicy and buttery, with a delicious flavor, peculiar, very 

 slightly musky, and vinous. The fruit is produced in clusters 

 of two or three each. 



We have copied this description, as we believe the pear is 

 but little known. Our opinion is that the fruit will rank with the 

 best pears of the season in which it ripens: and if the above ac- 

 count of Col. Carr is correct, it certainly merits general culti- 

 vation. 



Plums. — The following; varieties are all we have room to no- 



