170 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



The following new varieties are of unquestionable ex- 

 cellence ; scions of which were received during the winter 

 of 1840-1, from Mr. Emilien de Wael, secretary of the 

 Horticultural Society of Antwerp, in Belgium ; all of which 

 have been proved by him. These were sent to me, as the 

 selections from his own private and immense collection, 

 from all sources, of over 8000 varieties of fruits. 



D'Amande, Arbre Courbe, Beurre de Kent, Beurre 

 Tacon, Charlotte de Brouner, Dingier, Doyenne Caroline, 

 Doyenne Soulange, Fausse Spreuw, Fondante de Cher- 

 neuse, Fondante Grise, General Obdam, Grand Soleil, 

 Hernandes, Immense Bis d'Ete, Jaminette d'Hiver, Las 

 Canas, Leon le Clerc, Louise Morrel, Marquis de Bedmar, 

 Meuris d'Hiver, Princesse d'Orange, Rousselette d'Es- 

 perew, Seigneur Tachete. 



For more particular notices of some of these, and of 

 other fruits, &,c., see the SUPPLEMENT. 



CLOSING REMARKS. 



The foregoing descriptions of pears comprise generally, 

 all the most remarkable new kinds yet known, or proved, 

 either here, or at Paris, or London, or at the Garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society, to the latest date. Here, 

 in our own climate, they must be also tried and proved, 

 and their merits carefully compared, ere it will be possible 

 to make our election, even of a very limited number, posi- 

 tively of the very best. 



In this place I repeat the remark, that those low trees 

 only, which are pruned strictly in pyramidal form, can re- 

 tain their branches in full vigor to the ground, where they 

 will receive an equal portion of rain and dew, of air and 

 sunshine, thus becoming equally productive from summit 

 to base. And in regard to those trees which bear most 

 exuberantly, when it is desired to increase the size, and 

 improve the beauty and delicious quality of the fruit, let 

 half the fruit-spurs be cut out, and the work once well 

 done, is done for years. 



