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VOL. XII. 



BO STON, WEDNESDAY, EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 1833. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



PEARS. 



We have frequently received letters from d 

 taut correspondents, respecting the hest kind of 

 fruit trees to he obtained in the vicinity of Boston, 

 and at our request-, Mr. \V. Kenrick, of Newton, 

 lias furnished us with the communication subjoin- 

 ed. We hope soon to he favored with a descrip- 

 tive catalogue of the hest fruits in this neighbor- 

 hood, from a Committee of the Mass. Horticultural 

 Society. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 Tuos. G. Fessenden, Esq. — Dear Sir, I will 

 send to-day my last years Catalogue, or that of 

 1833, and in a fvw days my new one, in which 

 are marked with an asterisk all those varieties of 

 Pears which have already been proved amongst 

 us. All these are here of genuine kinds of course, 

 as the tree, the leaf and the fruit, are compared 

 with the descriptions, and the buds, to prevent 

 even the possibility of mistake, are immediately 

 renewed from the bearing tree: I will just speak 

 here of a few which are there marked thus *. 



g. 1. Bartlett (Williams Bon Chretien), large, 

 fair, very delicious, first rate, always productive. 



g. 2. Bourgmestre, very large and productive, 

 a good pear. 



g. 3. Capiaumont, 1st rate, very beautiful, large, 

 delicious, very productive. 



g. 4. Charles of Austria, large, beautiful, deli- 

 cious fruit, bearing not yet known. 



g. 5. Cohnar Souvernin, a noble and delicious 

 fruit, bearing not known. 



m. 6. Diel, is here genuine, a tree bore last year, 

 its fruit of most superior quality. 



g. 7. Beurre Easter, is here genuine from many 

 sources ; Mr. Manning's tree is now full for the 

 first time — I saw it in August, shall see it again. 



s. 8. Dix, a native of the 1st rate and very pro- 

 ductive. 



g. 9. Duchessed'Angouleme. I have here from 

 Messrs. Lowell and Perkins hearing trees. One of 

 the most noble and delicious of all our Pears — very 

 productive. 



g. 10. Julienne, very productive, early and de- 

 licious, very early, bears early. 



m. 11. Fulton, a native, very delicious and pro- 

 ductive. 



s. 12. Golden Beurre of Bilboa, new from 

 Spain, very delicious, beautiful and productive. 



g. 13. Harvard, a fine delicious native — tree a 

 great bearer, hut does not bear early. 



m. 14. Tleathcot, a large, delicious pear, very 

 beautiful and productive. 



gl 1-5. Passe Coltnar, a most delicious fruit, 

 and handsome, tree a prodigious bearer ; St. Ghis- 

 luin, of Van Mons, evidently a good bearer, a most 

 superior fruit. 



m. Id. Sylvanche Verte d'hiver, a very first- 

 rate late pear, a great bearer. 



s. 17. Urhaniste, n very first-rate and delicious 

 pear, a great bearer. This pear has been miscall- 

 ed Beurre du Roi (of John Prince.) 



m. 18. Wilkinson, a very fine native pear from 

 R. I. very productive. 



g\ 19. Scotch Carnock, received from London 

 Hort. Soc. proves a great bearer, a large winter 

 fruit. 



The above are some of the hest kinds which 

 are here from undisputed sources, from bearing 

 trees. I add no more now. There are numbers 

 of others I have marked. 



I add one beautiful pear introduced by John 

 Prince, Esq. ; the tree grows remarkably and is a 

 great bearer ; the fruit tolerable for table, excel- 

 lent for baking in Oct. This pear makes a fine 

 show ; it is 20lh s. Dr. Hunt's Connecticut. 



g. Denotes that the trees are now ready for sale 

 of good size. 



10. That the trees now ready are of middling 

 size. 



s. Trees small now, and I know not where else 

 they can be got to depend on. 



The size changes a little from the time we be- 

 gin to take up in the fall, and is always diminish- 

 ing till May. 



Cohnar d'hiver is here genuine ; it bore fruit at 

 Mr. Parsons's, but it cannot yet be recommended. 



Forelle has borne fruit, genuine, hut cannot yet 

 he recommended. 



D'Aremherg and many others, can only as yet 

 be recommended for trial. 



Very respectfully, your friend and obedient ser- 

 vam > William Ke.nrick 



J\avton, jYov. 1833. 



o,i this kind of eeonon 



NO. 19. 



my than by all the recipes, 

 agricultural axioms, horticultural essays, or rural 

 prescriptions that ever were or ever will be dif- 

 fused by means of the pen or the press. 



Since then we arc accused of publishing Jess 

 than we should, as well as more than we ought on 

 the topic aforesaid, we are inclined to think our 

 course has not been very erratic. If, however, 

 our correspondent can no longer endure our ser- 

 monizing, he will please to call at the JV. E. Farmer 

 office to receive the benediction ; and we will di- 

 rect our future discourses to more willing auditors. 

 We will, however, inform him that we have about 

 exhausted our temperance-topics, and shall not 

 preach much more at present, unless by particular 

 request, and to such persons as we think stand in 

 particular need of our admonitions. 



From Che Atbnjiy Argus. 



BERKSHIRE CATTLE SHOW. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 TOO MUCH TEMPERANCE. 



Mr. Editor, Has a man after receiving sub- 

 scriptions and pay in advance for a public journal 

 any moral right to devote it to other objects than 

 those mentioned in his prospectus ? If not, why 

 are the pages of the " New England Farmer anil 

 Horticultural Journal" filled with the productions 

 of the Temperance advocates ? Why are the in- 

 structive essays, and extracts from books to which 

 most of us have not access crowded out to give 

 place to dissertations upon a subject which ought 

 not to appear in its columns? I am no enemy to 

 the temperance cause, but most cordially wish it 

 success ; by precept and example too, I show mv 

 devotion to it. There are papers whose object it 

 is to diffuse information on this subject in their 

 pages, and we are pleased to see any thing which 

 will tend to enlighten the public mind and of 

 course diminish the consumption of ardent spirits. 

 " Every one to his trade" and "all things in their 

 places',' are our mottoes. We take the Farmer for 

 the purpose of gaining information relative to our 

 irt, and to that let it be devoteil ; it is what we 

 expect; what we have paid for: and it is what we 

 claim. Injure not its usefulness, by prostituting 

 its pages to any thing else. 



A Subscriber who has paid in advance. 

 By Ike Editor. The above is a tolerable sample 

 of the "Miseries" of Editors. We have, heretofore, 

 been admonished of the propriety of devoting 

 nore room in the jY. E. Farmer to the objects of the 

 ISmperance Reformation. We have been told ver- 

 baly, as well as informed by letter, that nothing 

 rdating to Rural Economy is of half the conse- 

 qience to individuals as well as to the community, 

 at the inculcation of the doctrines of the advocates 

 ol total abstinence from distilled spirits, &c. &c. 

 Tiat more money, (to say nothing of health, repu- 

 taion, mind, morals, &c.) may be saved by lessons 



I was among the many strangers who devoted 

 two or three days to attend the recent anniversary 

 of the Berkshire Agricultural Society. It was the 

 twenty-second anniversary. As I had attended 

 several of its meetings before, and one in the in- 

 fancy of the society, my attention was particularly 

 drawn to the evidences of improvement which had 

 been developed by its influence. These were 

 manifested in the highly improved appearance of 

 the farms, farm stock, farm buildings and farm 

 crops ; but still more apparent in the moral and 

 intellectual condition of the population. The in- 

 terests of A bciety seemed to be identified with 

 the interests of all classes ; and all appeared to Tie 

 solicitous for its prosperity and perpetuity, as 

 though with the prosperity of their schools, (an- 

 other subject of just pride) it redounded to their 

 personal credit, and to the aggrandizement of their 

 county. 



Among the thousands assembled on the occa- 

 sion, I beheld many of the reverend clergy, many 

 other gentlemen of the learned professions, who 

 are generally more or less engaged in husbandry, 

 and merchants and manufacturers. Each class 

 and each sex of society, appeared to be fully and 

 well represented ; all vied in giving interest and 

 eclat to the occasion. The assemblage of ladies 

 at the church, at the young ladies' fair, and at the 

 ball room, was numerous and brilliant, and con- 

 tributed in no small degree to diffuse a charm of 

 good nature and kind feelings among the crowd. 

 The exercises at the church were impressive and 

 highly interesting. The dinner tables were sur- 

 rounded by nearly two hundred persons, mostly 

 husbandmen, highly respectable in their dress and 

 their deportment. Hilarify presided at the festive 

 board, regulated by tjie genius of temperance and 

 the reverend clergy. I did not see a man, woman 

 or child, who I thought had been intemperate in 

 drinking or in eating. All seemed to be good- 

 natured, cheerful and gay. On the whole, I was 

 highly pleased and instructed, and became a full 

 convert to the belief, that the society had more 

 than realized the high expectations of its found- 

 ers. I love old Berkshire, for her early and per- 

 severing efforts to improve the soil and to enlighten 

 the mind— objects most worthy of our ambition, 

 and most ennobling to our nature ; and I rejoice, 



