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London Horticultural Society ; and, at the 

 Twentieth Annual Exhibition of'the Mass, 

 Hort. Society, two hundred and sixty sorts 

 were exhibited, from the Pomological Garden 

 at Salem in this State. As in the lists of ap- 

 ples, we shall present no such frightful cata- 

 logues, to confuse and perplex those who may 

 do us the honor to consult our pages. If one 

 of the most extensive cultivators of the pear 

 in America could not furnish Downing with 

 the names of more than twenty varieties of 

 unvarying and unquestionable excellence, 

 surely thirty or forty varieties will be deemed 

 sufficient for so small a work as ours. We 

 arrange and number the pears in the lists, 

 about in the order of their ripening. But as 

 with other fruits, some ripen contemporane- 

 ously ; some ripen nearly all at a time, while 

 others ripen gradually for several weeks-. 

 The soil and location also have considerable 

 effect upon the time of a fruit's maturity, par- 

 ticularly of the pear. 



For Tables of Quality and Size, (fee., see 

 the Preliminary Remarks to Part II. 



