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The Double-Flowering White Horse Chestnut. — We copy the accompanying 

 figure and description of this rare and beautiful variety of one of the most popular onia- 

 mental trees from the Gardener's Magazine. We had the pleasure of seeing some fine 

 specimens of it abroad ; the largest was in Mr. Le Roy's nurseries at Angers, France : 

 it is some fifteen years old, and about as large as the common sort at that age in this 

 country, dt is easily propagated by grafting or budding on the common one, and will 

 no donbt soon be had in our nurseries. 



"^■EscuLTJS HiPFOCASTANUM FLOREPLENO. Doublc flowercd Horsc Chestnut. — ^A rather uncommon and 

 very ornamental tree, equalling in vigor the common soi't, from which it differs only in its double 

 flowc^rs. These are very showy, liaviug a strong resemblance to a good double hyacinth ; tliey are 

 pale blusli, with deeper blush at the base of the petals. Our tigure was made from a specimen com- 

 municated by Mr. Rivep-s, nui-seryman of Sawbridge worth, wlio informs us that he 'received it from 

 the Continent some seven or eight ycai-s since.' The spike of flowers we have represented was not 

 as long as usual, owing to the tip having been killed by the fi»st in May. The trees flower when 

 quite young." 



Large Apples. — In our part of the country, large apples are by no means a novelty. 

 Our Twenty Ounces^ Monstrous Pijypins^ and Pujyijyk'm apples, are so common that 

 nothing short of the wonderful is really worthy of note. We think we have something 

 before us that comes under that head ; if not, it borders closely upon it at any rate. A 

 specimen of the Fall Pippin we think, produced in the garden of Aaron Erickson, Esq., 

 of Rochester, measuring sixteen inches in circumference, and weighing twenty-six and 

 one-half ounces. We cut this prodigious specimen and found it sound and good to the 

 core, and of very fair quality. There grew on the same tree, another weighing twenty- 

 five ounces, and two others nearly as large. It is a serious, if not a very dangerous mat- 

 ter to grow such apples. Suppose one of these should fall ten or fifteen feet, upon the 

 head of a child, or even of a grown person ? But Mr. Erickson does not apprehend any 

 danger of this kind. The tree that produced these monsters is not over three feet high, 

 and this will appear to those not accustomed to the culture of dwarf trees, no less remark- 

 able than the size of the apples. We think Mr. E. may say that he has produced the 

 largest apple on record, on the smallest tree. In aU our experience, we have seen none, 

 nor in reading have we seen any account of such large apples. The trees are some seven 

 years planted, and are about ten years old. Mr. Erickson has also produced the largest 

 and most beautiful specimens of the Alexander a^Jple that we have ever seen, on dwarf 

 trees, too. The crop on all his dwarf apple trees, the past season, has been remarkably 

 fine, although on standard trees generally, it has been below the usual average. The 

 dwarf pears, in the same garden, were, a few years ago, the finest in this country of their 

 age, but the blight that prevailed here a few years past, made sad inroads upon them. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW PEARS. 



BY B. DESPORTEZ, OF ANGERS, FRANCE. 



The Alouette pear, (Fig. 1.) — Mr. Andre Le Roy found this variety in one of his nur- 

 series on the farm at Sauge, near Angers. The tree has a pyramidal habit, of vigorous 

 growth, and as a standard exceedingly productive — one of the most profitable for market. 

 The farmer gathers annually 4000 fruits from this tree, weighing 400 lbs., or thereabout, 

 and sells them for six or eight dollars, which, considering how cheap everything is in 

 our country, is considered large profits, and few other kinds yield so much. 



The fruit^is small — about two inches long and one and three quarters in diameter. 



Form — turbinate, regular, surface uneven. Stalk — slender, one inch long, inserted on 



the surface. Calyx — large, broad, deep. Color, greenish yellow, sprinkled with gray 



dots and rosy spots on the sunny side. Flesh — breaking, white, juicy, sweet, and agree- 



j K ably perfumed. Ripens beginning of September here. The hardiness and productive- J r 



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