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This pear has improved greatly both in size and flavor during its first 

 two years. It is much esteemed by its originator; and, as it has this season 

 received the unquaUfied praise of our best pomologists, it is unhesitatingly 

 recommended to the attention of the connoisseur as well as to growers for 

 market. 



HEPATICAS. 



There is no more brilliant sight in early spring than a clump of the 

 double hepaticas. In form, the flower is perfection, perfectly imbricate, and 

 double as the finest camellia. We hardly know whether to prefer the blue 

 or the red : both are lovely ; and, if our fancy rather tends to the blue, it is 

 because we have fewer plants of it. 



It would be impossible to have too many double hepaticas ; for there is no 

 spring-flower superior to them. Hcpatlca angulosa^ our latest acquisition, 

 is a species with single flowers, but blooms freely, is very showy and hardy, 

 and most desirable. 



CYCLAMEN PERSICUM. 



What a charming plant is this for window-culture 1 Indeed, we know 

 of none possessing so many admirable qualities. Of neat, often showy 

 foliage, low, close habit, seldom subject to disease, and never to the attacks 

 of insects, even if it never bloomed, it would prove attractive ; but when 

 we add to all this the beauty and fragrance of the neat, pure white or rosy- 

 tipped flowers, we have a combination of beauty which we cannot find 

 elsewhere. The plant is of the easiest culture, growing freely in common 

 soil, and blooms in winter. 



