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ing to its size. The effect is to check the tree in its growth, 

 and to force it to expend all its remaining energies in forming 

 embryo blossom buds and fruit. This it will continue to do 

 until its vital energies are exhausted and life is extinguished, 

 the duration of which will depend very much on the vigorous 

 application of this destructive system. 



The above remarks are offered in the hope that some one 

 more capable may be induced to take up the subject and show 

 its mischievous effects. 



Spring Garden, near Cincinnati, December 21, 1846. 



Art. IV. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Pears. By the Editor. 



In our past volumes, we have given our descriptions and 

 engravings of new pears under the head of Pomological No- 

 tices. But, as our information under that head is intended 

 only to contain brief notices of new or choice fruits, previous 

 to a full description of them when better known, we have 

 thought it desirable to give our future descriptions of pears 

 under a distinct head. 



We have the drawings of many fine varieties, which we 

 shall endeavor to present in this volume, and, among them, 

 some new and superior kinds, particularly of native origin : 

 among these will be the Onondaga, which we have already 

 noticed, and which we should have presented a description 

 and engraving of before, but for the hope of obtaining a full 

 and correct account of its origin. 



The following six varieties are entirely new, and have never 

 yet been figured, part of them having been received from 

 Van Mons without names ; but brief notices of some of them 

 will be found in the communications of the late Mr. Manning 

 in a previous volume (VIII. p. 56.) Subsequent experience 

 has confirmed the good opinion which he then expressed of 

 their merits, and they may be enumerated among the best 

 varieties which have been recently added to our collections. 



