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sery, and Mr. Mantel, on the Bloomingdale Road, each of which 

 contained some large and fine specimens. 



The greatest exhibitors of dahlias were Messrs. Dunlap, Thor- 

 burn, Reid, Kent, Van Buien, and Hogg, and among them were 

 some very superb specimens of flowers, such as Dowaeer Lady 

 Cooper, Widnall's Queen, Alba purpurea. Duchess of Richmond, 

 Catileugh's Eclipse, Phenomenon, Maria, Le Grand Baudine, &c. 



The exhibition of vegetables was excellent. The squashes, cab- 

 bages, onions, turnips, beets, &c., were there in profusion, of large 

 size, and well grown. 



Had we not been promised the reports of the several committees 

 awarding the premiums, we should have extended our present re- 

 port, and made mention of all the prominent articles exhibited; but 

 as these reports will appear in our next number, we shall refer our 

 readers to them for a full account of the exhibition of the horticul- 

 tural department. 



We should not omit here to mention the exertions of Mr. Bridg- 

 man, in the arrangement of the articles exhibited, or of his endea- 

 vors to serve the interests of the Institute, in drawing up the awards 

 of premiums, and promoting the interests of horticulture general- 

 ly.— i<U 



Art. n. Retrospective Criticism. 



Errata. — In our September number, page 350, lines 26th and 28th 

 from the top, for " IVitcomb ^ Ring,'' read " Wilcomb S^ King;" an 

 error which escaped our notice until too late for correction. — Ed. 



Glout Morceau Pear. — Mr. Editor: The subscriber would remark, 

 in reply to the communication of "A Fruit Grower," p. 312, that at 

 least one of his statements is not in accordance with the facts in the 

 case. We stated, in our former note, that we had no intention, (not 

 instruction, as it appears by a typographical error,) to go behind the 

 authority of the London Horticultural Society, and that the error 

 "rests with the printer or the writer, no matter which;" your corres- 

 pondent has defined our position, Ity stating that it "could not have 

 been an error of the printer." in this he labors under a mistake. 

 We had hoped that our former statement, coupled as it was with our 

 frank acknosvledgment of the mistake, would have been sufficient on 

 this point; but we now feel constrained to say that the printer did 

 make the alteration on his own responsibility. 



We fully agree with your correspondent, that the French and 

 Flemish pears, in many instances, have local name* attached to them, 

 for which it would be almost impossible to give a proper and cor- 

 rect siiinification. Nothing probably can be satisfactory, on this 

 head, without knowing the intention of the original namer of the 

 fruit; it \s probable that Glout, the abbreviation of Glouton, will be 

 found wide of the mark; and as our only aim is to gain information, 



