NOTES. 



Page 5. A settlement of that sect called Shakers, established at New 

 Gloucester, Me., originally from the South Shore, (Plymouth County,) 

 have transferred and cultivate the sweet apple, known in that county as the 

 Hight Top Sweeting, a striking evidence of its popularity among the set- 

 tlers of that part of the country. 



Page 6. The Scotch Larch seems peculiarly adapted to the promontory 

 of Nahant, and likely to prove highly advantageous as an arboricultural 

 subject. 



Page 6. Several varieties of Pears have fruited, for the first time, in 

 the gardens of Frederic Tudor, Esq., during the summer of 1838. 



Page 31. The plum curculio. Rhynchoenus nenuphar. Herbst {Rhyn- 

 chcBnus Cerasi, Peck.) See an article on this troublesome insect, published 

 by Prof. Peck, in the fifth volume of the Massachusetts Agricultural Reposi- 

 tory, p. 311, with an accompanying plate. 



ADDENDUM. 



Reference has been made on page sixth to the Endicott Pear, as a proba- 

 ble relic of one of the earliest orchards in this vicinity. For a more detailed 

 account, the reader is referred to Note V. of the Ninth Anniversary Address, 

 before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1837, by Wm. Lincoln, Esq. 



No doubt can be entertained of its being a natural production, from the 

 spiny character of its branches, and from its proving true in fruit, when 

 grown from suckers and cuttings of the root. Valuable as a market pear. 



