24 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



The preservation and improvement of present species, — the 

 keeping the good ones as good as now, and making them, 

 if possible, better in their own distinct properties, — seem to 

 me, Mr. Editor, considerations worthy of a particular place 

 in the monthly calendar of every lover of horticultural prog- 

 ress. But these conditions can only be answered by dili- 

 gence, directed by skill, and guided by some knowledge of 

 vegetable physiology. If 1 have not crowded your pages too 

 much, and if the subject seems to you as important as it 

 appears to me, I should be glad to pursue it farther, and ex- 

 hibit some methods for carrying into effect the hints here 

 advanced. 



We shall be glad to have our correspondent follow up 

 this subject. It certainly is one of importance, and the in- 

 terest which he takes in it, as well as the experiments he 

 has tried, will enable him to treat it in a thorough man- 

 ner. — Ed. 



POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. 



The Beurre' Clairgeau Pear. — This new pear has fruit- 

 ed the past year in many collections, in different localities, 

 and in various soils, thus affording better evidence of its qual- 

 ity. It is gratifying to state that, so far as we have have had 

 an opportunity to try them, the specimens have, in almost 

 every instance, fully sustained the previous reputation of this 

 very fine variety. They have been large, handsomely col- 

 ored, and uniformly fair, though nearly all were from small 

 trees, and generally upon the quince stock. From our own 

 collection we had them both from the quince and pear, and 

 in each instance of uniform excellence. We may safely 

 place it among the most valuable of recent accessions to our 

 collections of the pear, and recommend it as worthy of gen- 

 eral cultivation. 



The California Grapes. — Among the products of Cali- 

 fornia, which were found there when it came into the pos- 

 session of this country, were the fine grapes which have since 



