1 'IS Editorial Miscellany. 



second time we have seen these pears confounded. Can any of 

 our readers inform us if there be a distinct " Adele De St. Denis ?" 



" Pride of Geneva." — This is the name of an apple received 

 from Messrs. N. & D. It is one of the mammoth class, but has a 

 watery flesh which will prove a barrier to its introduction among 

 good fruits of its class. Leech's Kingsessing was very good, but 

 we are compelled to make the memoranda, "not first rate." 



And, now, while we are on the subject, we will take the oppor- 

 tunity to invite horticulturists, both amateur and professional, to 

 send us specimens of any new fruits, flowers, &c., which maj' 

 come under their observation. By this means, really valuable 

 information may be transmitted, and assertions secure a publicity 

 which shall decide whether they be facts, and entitled to notice. 

 Notwithstanding the prodigious efi'orts which have been made, 

 and are still making, by distinguished horticulturists to reconcile 

 and individualize the nomenclature of fruits, a lamentable igno- 

 rance (quite perverse in some instances) still exists among a 

 majority of fruit-growers, particularly those who cultivate for 

 market. 



In om* last number of the Review, " Evelyn," in his critique, 

 refers to Prof. North in a manner which gives the reader an im- 

 pression that the latter gentleman is frosted with accumulated 

 years, and like a very patriarch, with tottering gait, is advising 

 his inexperienced children to love those material things which 

 come freshest from God's hands. 



Now, Prof. North being a young man, and not wishing to oc- 

 cupy a false position, indignantly denies the "ancient" insinua- 

 tion ; and we do not wonder at it, for age and ugliness are witli 

 the world an inseparable compound. The professor, however, 

 having obtained his majority, is entitled to the privilege of speak- 

 ing for himself, so here it is : 



Hamiltox College, 



Nov. 24, 1854. 

 C. Reagles, Esq. 



Dear Sir, 



Some men grow old by natural and easy 

 stages — some bring old age upon themselves, prematurely, by in- 

 temperance — and some have it thrust upon them by the printer's 

 devil. To the latter class belongs your wronged contributor. 



