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raise them nearer the surface, from their cold abiding place. Having pro- 

 vided myself wiih a good stock of loam, I supplied the roots with a lib- 

 eral share of it, and by the time the trench was nearly filled up again, the 

 points of any of the side roots were brought near the top. 



The first season following, the trees made very little progress. The 

 second year after they were pruned and nailed, I made three incisions with 

 a knife down the whole length of the stems, as they appeared to be what 

 persons in the profession term hide-bound. As the season advanced, the 

 trees began to make up for the rest of the previous season, sendmg forth 

 fine healthy shoots, which I allowed to remain on the trees until the au- 

 tumn, not even stopping them. The third season a great improvement 

 appeared to be going on, both in forming healthy shoots, and forming 

 fruit buds. The shoots I allowed to remam their full length, until the wood 

 w^as ripe, the same as before. 



I have great pleasure in being able to state, that the trees this season 

 have produced a splendid crop of fruit, and fine in quality. I gatheied, 

 a few days ago, from one half-standard, which does not extend more than 

 fifteen feet wide, 228 fine pears, fit for table, when ripe ; and from ano- 

 ther tree (Beurre Diel) which only extends to nine feet wide, eighty six 

 fruit was gathered : some of them weighed ten ounces each. — {lb. p. 245.) 



Art. hi. Domestic Notices. 



Colmar d^Aremberg Pear. — We have fruited this beautiful variety the 

 past season in our collection, one of the pears being quite large ; but some 

 of the most remarkable specimens were sent to us by N. Stetson, Esq., of 

 Bridgewater, whose garden we lately noticed, (p. 441.) One of these 

 weighed fourteen and a half ounces, and measured /ovr and a half inches 

 long : and they were produced on a small espalier tree only planted two 

 years. The great size, early bearing and productiveness, as well as great 

 excellence of this pear, will render it indispensable in every choice collec- 

 tion. It ripens at a good season, about the first of November, just after 

 Swan's Orange, and keeps up the succession of fine large pears. — Ed. 



Rhode Is/and Horticultural Society. — This new association held its second 

 annual exhibition at Providence on the 29th and 30th of September. The 

 display of fruit, particularly of apples, was exceedingly fine ; among the 

 pears, some new sorts were exhibited, and there were also fine specimens 

 of the Pratt, Capsheaf, BufTum, Knight's Seedling, and other R. I. vari- 

 eties. The Westcott, a variety recently brought to notice, is said to be 

 excellent. The report has been received, and we shall notice it in our 

 next number. — Ed. 



The Boston Pine Strawberry. — Your Boston Pine Strawberry, (of which 

 you may recollect I obtained just a dozen plants of you two years ago this 

 autumn,) has done well with me. I did not expect, as a s^ffmma^e kind, 

 that it would equal your seedling, but it has come up fully to my expecta- 



