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well in every respect, and the trees are more hardy. My friend D. W. Ad- 

 ams, of the north part of Iowa, says the Flemish Beauty is hardy there, and 

 is thought to be the best variety to plant in that part of the country. 



The excess of rain this season caused many of our varieties to crack 

 and become very knurly ; yet the fine warm weather of August has brought 

 such varieties out much better than we expected. Louise Bonne, White 

 Doyenne, Vicar of Winkfield, Belle Lucrative, and Summer Doyenne, were 

 among the worst affected by the wet season. Those less affected are 

 Rostiezer, Tyson, Glout Morceau, Beurre d'Anjou, Seckel, and others. 



At St. Louis, at the meeting of the American Pomological Society, I ob- 

 served that Western pears were of clearer color, finer and handsomer, 

 than those brought from the East. But, this wet season, many of my varie- 

 ties have that cloudy or russety appearance. So with a collection of 

 apples we sent from our winter exhibition last January to the New- York 

 Farmers' Club : they were very much admired by those who saw them. 



I hear from all parts of the West that the pear-crop is very abundant, 

 while our apple-crop is almost an entire fiilure. Probably one of the 

 causes of this failure was the cold rains at time of blooming and soon 

 after. Do not storms affect the pear in the same way ? My Bartlett trees 

 are now overloaded, and actually breaking down under their load of fine 

 specimens of large, fair, and luscious fruit. 



AUTUMN FOLIAGE OF FRUIT-TREES. 



Though there is, of course, not so great a diversity in the autumnal tints 

 of the leaves of, fruit-trees as in forest-trees, some of them are very beau- 

 tiful. Nothing can be more magnificent than a large cherry-tree after the 

 leaves have ripened to a brilliant yellow or orange, when glorified in the 

 bright October sunshine. Among pears, the Golden Beurre of Bilboa, and 

 the old Colmar, are remarkable for taking a deep crimson ; and the black- 

 berries show every shade of color from green to dark purple. 



