154 Retrospective Criticism. 



nrean Botanic Garden and Nursery. As to streets being cut through 

 the nursery, and the same l)eing laid out into lots, thereby intending 

 that it should be inferred that the nursery had been destroyed, a 

 street or avenue for the comparatively short distance of about two 

 hundred and fift}' feet only, has been opened into the nursery, on the 

 sides of which are the green-houses, conservatories, and nursery 

 offices, some recently erected: and one other street, to the like ex- 

 tent only, between the nursery and adjoining lands, each contributing 

 part, upon which it is purposed to erect cottages for the workmen; 

 and which streets afford convenient and ornamental avenues to the 

 nursery, being planted with specimen ornamental trees of various 

 kinds. Not a fruit tree was removed from these premises by the 

 Messrs. Prince, except fir regular sales. The Linna?an Garden and 

 Nursery, having been sold under a foreclosure of mort<>age thereon, 

 and all the rest having been sold under judgments, the Messrs. Prince 

 retain merely temj)orary possession, they being now enjoined by the 

 Court of Chancery from removing any trees, &c. therefrom. In con- 

 clusion, I would add, that Mr. Garretson does not pretend to be 

 agent for the Messrs. Prince, and disclaims all connection with them; 

 and that the present proprietors of the old and 7'eal Linncean Botan- 

 ic Garden and Nursery, intend not only to continue the establish- 

 ment, but to spare no pains or expense to maintain its ancient celeb- 

 rity for its unrivalled collection of trees, shrubs, plants, &.c., and to 

 add to the collection. — Gabriel Winter, Flushing, March 15, 1842. 



[Our correspondent will perceive that we have omitted one or two 

 lines, which have no bearing upon the question at issue, and the in- 

 sertion of which would have done no good. 



It was no more than justice that we should allow Mr. Prince to 

 correct any error of ours in relation to his own affairs; and if, in so 

 doing, he has made statements which are not true in reference to Mr. 

 Winter, it is no more than equal justice that we should allow Mr. 

 Winter room to reply. Each of them havini; made their statements, 

 the public can judge of their correctness. We do not wish to make 

 our pages a vehicle of personal altercation between any parties, as 

 the room can be more profitably occupied, and shall therefore not 

 give place to any further communications on this subject. Our ad- 

 vertising- pages are open to all; and if Messrs. Prince or Mr. Winter 

 wish to make use of them, they can do so to any length they please, 

 on the usual terms. — Ed."] 



The xorong name. — (Mr. Manning's communication, p. 56.) — Mr. 

 Hovey : — I am not much of a horticulturist, but I always read your 

 Magazine with interest and pleasure. I was much pleased with the 

 cuts of the outlines of new pears fruited by Mr. Manning, in your 

 February number: this simi)le mode of delineating pears, I think, is 

 very excellent, as it conveys to the eye a good idea of the shape and 

 size of the fruit. The difference in color is not so great in pears as 

 it is in apples. By a representation of the shape, as exhibited in an 

 outline, we obtain nearly as much to aid us in discriminating between 

 different varieties, as we should were the engravings shaded, color- 

 ed, and finished off at great expense. We have one word of fault, 

 however, to find with Mr. Manning, in regard to the name of one 

 of the pears described in his communication, viz., the "Beurre Pre- 



