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I have measured the square on the lower part of the garden, 

 which you first visited, and find it to be fifty-two feet by forty- 

 two, or about two thousand two hundred square feet. On this 

 plat is one large apple tree, two peach trees, two plums, one 

 cherry tree, and twenty-one pears. Of the pears there are 2 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, 2 Louise Bonne de Jersey, 5 Seckles 

 (rather small), 3 Bartletts, 1 Beurre Royal, 1 Beza de la Motte, 

 1 Passe Colmar, 4 whose names are lost, and two smaller ones, 

 bought at auction, whose names I never knew. These last 

 have never borne fruit. Of the four others, unknown, or at 

 least two of them, the fruit you tasted, and approved. The 

 other two bore early and excellent fruit, and all bore luxuriant- 

 ly. All these trees, except one, are on quince stocks, and 

 were put out, in part, six years ago last spring, and the other 

 part seven years ago this autumn. This portion of my garden, 

 when I bought it, in 1833, was wet and mirey, with a few al- 

 ders, a few bogs and some stones. After clearing off the stones 

 and bushes it was covered with two or three loads of sand, 

 ploughed and planted with potatoes, for two or three years, 

 and afterwards with other garden vegetables. Several peach 

 trees were placed in it, which produced most luxuriant foliage, 

 but very little fruit. These were removed and their place sup- 

 plied with pears. No manure has been given to this piece of 

 ground, but such as has been made of the surplus vegetation, 

 thrown into a pen where one pig has been kept, and mixed in 

 the spring with the contents of the vault, and occasionally a 

 small quantity of coal ashes — anthracite. The spaces between 

 the trees, as you may have observed, are filled up with rasp- 

 berries and rhubarb. The soil, which lies on a strong founda- 

 tion of clay, is nearly two feet in depth. 



The pear trees on the southerly side of the garden, forty- 

 three in number, have been planted at various times, — all but 

 three or four within seven years, and most of them within five. 

 Four of them are Duchesse d' Angoiileme, 4 Louise Bonne, 2 

 Maria Louise, 2 Vickar of Winkfield, 2 Flemish Beauty, 3 

 Bergamot, 2 Chaumontelle, 2 Beurre Diel, 1 Belle et Bonne, 

 3 Bartletts, 1 Summer Franc Real, 1 Madeleine, 1 Van Mons 

 Leon le Clerc, 1 Hacon's Incomparable, 1 Brown Beurre, 1 

 Napoleon, and of the others, the names I have lost. This 

 strip of ground is 220 feet long by 25 in width ; and on it, 



