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to our notice the " Bottle Greening," which liy the way is a very ugly 

 name, but one that has become so firmly fixed to it that it will be impos- 

 sible now to change it. It is a greening with a bright blush on the sunny 

 side, entirely covered with bloom. In shape more like the Ilubbardston 

 Xonsuch than the Rhode Island Greening, and of imiform size for the 

 table. Keeps all winter. Tree a very fine grower. We think it a 

 vahial)le variety. 



Most of the cultivators about Boston have concluded that tarring the 

 trees frequently is after all the most effectual way to prevent the grubs 

 of the cankerworm from ascending the tree. With all the pears we can 

 possibly grow we cannot wholly give up the apple, and if Ave in the vi- 

 cinity of the large cities, or along the sea coast, fail with this fruit, the 

 farmers further back in the country must go more extensively into its 

 cultivation to supply the cities. We should not be obliged, in ordinary 

 years, to send to Xew York or Ohio for our apples, when our own State 

 has thousands of acres Avell adapted to apple growing. We hope not to 

 be obliged to mourn a lack of apples after this, for a long time to come. 



We now come to. the pear, a favorite fruit with horticulturists, and one 

 that can be quite easily grown. Formerh', it seemed to require a life- 

 time to bring a pear orchard into btaring, biit of late years, it requires 

 no more time than it does to get a good apple orchard. As pears are 

 more extensively raised, it seems as though prices increased, for they 

 have sold higher the past year than formerly. We pay better attention 

 to this fruit, and rely more upon it than we did before the failure of the 

 apple croji. It has fewer enemies, and gives better results, perhaps, 

 than any fruit we cultivate. Prominent among the contributors, during 

 the season and at the Annual Exhibition, were Hovey & Co., M. P. Wild- 

 er, H. Yandine, F. Dana, Walker & Co., Wm. E. Austin, Davis & Bates, 

 and Josiah Stickney; many others exhibited very fine specimens, though 

 on the whole, the fruit shown for prizes did not appear and was not as 

 large and fair as that of some previous years. Though a silver cuj) was 

 oflfered for the best dish of Bartletts, yet there were but few contributors 

 and the specimens caine far short of those shown on a former occasion 

 for a similar i")rize. It is somewhat remarkal)le, that the same gentle- 

 man should take both cups, each time having the best dish of ]5artlett 

 pears. Prominent among the good pears shown, were such varieties as 

 Bartlett, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Sheldon, Urbaniste, Beurre d'Anjou, 

 Dana's Ilovej^, Doyenn<^ du Cornice, Merriam, Doyenne Boussock, Law- 

 rence and others. The President had a ver}^ fine collection, in addition 

 to his twenty varieties that took the first prize. M. P. Wilder also had 

 a very fine collection, embracing some of the newer vai-ietics, such as 

 Gen. Todleben, Emile de Heyst, Counseilleur de la Cour, and Caen de 

 France. Dr. Shurtletf, of Brookline, who is an industrious and intelli- 

 gent laborer in the field of horticulture, sent in a large number of his 

 seedling pears, most of them named, but some yet withoiit names. We 



