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shall refer to both of them again in the course of our re- 

 marks. 



In the fall and winter of 1840 — 41, Mr. W. Kenrick, 

 author of the American Orchardist, made a visit to England 

 and France, and on his return, published the third edition of 

 his work. To this edition, he added a brief description of 

 several new kinds of pears and other fruits, which have re- 

 cently been brought into notice in France, and which were 

 recommended to him by M. Dalbret, superintendent of the 

 compartment of fruits in the Garden of Plants, at Paris, and 

 Mr. Jamin, nurseryman. We shall notice most of these, as 

 well as others described in the Bon Jardinier for 1841 and 

 for 1842, as new and fine kinds. 



New additions are constantly making to all our varieties of 

 fruit, and among our amateur cultivators and nurserymen, as 

 well as those abroad, many superior kinds have been lately 

 raised. It will be our endeavor, either at the present time, 

 or in another paper, to notice all the most remarkable of these, 

 that our readers may make trial of them, and ascertain their 

 value in comparison with the well known and commonly culti- 

 vated varieties. Our present notices will be wholly confined 

 to new pears. 



The Dunmore Pear. — This is one of the late T. A. Knight's 

 seedlings, raised as long since as 1823, and described by him 

 in the second series of the Transactions of the London Hor- 

 ticultural Society; but its fruit has not been fully known un- 

 til its recent production in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, where it has proved lo be a first rate variety. jNfr. 

 Thompson, the intelligent cultivator of the fruit department, 

 has given the following description of it in the Gardener^s 

 Chronicle: — 



"This variety is highly deserving of notice, not only for 

 its intrinsic excellence, but also on account of such a fruit 

 being wanted to come in for use between Williams's Bon 

 Chretien and the Marie Louise, when there is a scarcity of 

 large and good pears. It has borne fruit in the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, where it grows vigorously as a standard, 

 producing fruit between four and five inches in length, and 

 three inches in diameter, of an oblong or ovate form; eye 

 small, open, in a shallow depression; stalk from an inch to an 

 inch and a half in length, of medium thickness, somewhat 

 fleshy at its junction with the fruit, which is oblique; skin 



