The HorticidtH7'al Value of the Crow. 45 



varieties for this purpose should be more extensive than the former list 

 One object in thus planting should be to have as wide a range of flavors as 

 possible, as well as to embrace all the other good qualities that can possi- 

 bly be obtained. One 5ther i-hought should be kept constantly in mind in 

 planting for hom^use, — that of a succession of fruit from very early to very 

 late. Among the very earliest comes the Madeleine ; a rather poor pear, 

 of which it might answer to have a single tree. Better, though very small, 

 is the Doyenne d'£te : then the Supreme de Quimper, Rostiezer, Tyson, 

 Bloodgood, Pinneo, St. Ghislain, Beurre Giffard, and Brandywine, are all 

 good pears in their season, and should find a place in such a collection. 

 The same may be said of Dearborn's Seedling, Clapp's Favorite, Bartlett, 

 Belle Lucrative, Flemish Beauty (rather sparingly), Beurre Bosc, Abbott, 

 Sheldon, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Duchesse d'Angouleme (on quince), 

 Seckel, Marie Louise, Urbaniste, Mt. Vernon, Beurre Hardy, Lawrence, 

 Beurre d'Anjou, Dana's Hovey, Beurre d'Aremberg (slow grower), Catillac 

 (for cooking). Vicar of Winkfield, Winter Nelis, Beurre Diel, and Glout 

 Morceau in some locations. There are many other good varieties, of course, 

 that can be added to this list, including some of the newer pears of great 

 promise ; such as Rogers, Goodale, Edmonds, Ellis, Wellington, Caen de 

 France, fimile d'Heyst, Gen. Todtleben, and others. The above list will 

 not be suitable to every variety of soil and location, but is probably 

 the very best for one's own use. In briefly presenting this list of pears, it 

 is proper to say that those have mostly been selected that by experience 

 have been found to give satisfactory results ; and no one can go far astray 



in adopting it, 



• 7. F. C. Hyd^ 



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Perhaps no branch of American rural economy has been so little 

 investigated as the food of our native birds. In Europe, within a few 

 years, the attention of scientific men has been turned to the subject : but 

 the information they have been able to obtain, although valuable, cannot, 

 of course, be applied, otherwise than by a series of analogies, to this 

 countr)' ; and the economical value of most of our species is as yet almost 



