84 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



Dr. Lindley concludes his remarks on this memoir in a 

 much more appropriate manner than he commences them, in 

 saying that " the unusual appearance is merely caused by 

 unusual circumstances, of a sudden description, and is only 

 temporary. The individual remains the same ; though we 

 admit that it may be so modified, year after year, by circum- 

 stances, as to assume the character of an apparently distinct 

 variety, and retain it with some degree of permanence.'' We 

 can scarcely admit the truth of the latter statement ; for, in 

 all the changes that trees undergo by grafting and budding, 

 which are endless, we never yet saw any variety that re- 

 tained any change made by peculiar causes, after those causes 

 were removed. 



The Verulam Pear. — This is the name adopted by Mr. 

 R. Thompson, for an old pear, known as Buchanan's Spring 

 Beurre. He describes and figures it in the Gardener'' s Chron- 

 icle, where he states that it was received into the collection 

 of the London Horticultural Society, in 1828, under the lat- 

 ter name, from the nursery of Mr. Buchanan, of Camber- 

 well. In 1827, however, a cutting was received from another 

 source, as the Verulam pear, which subsequently proved, 

 when the tree came into bearing, identical with it ; and Mr. 

 Thompson considers it the better name to adopt, as the pear 

 is not properly a Beurre, being crisp, and breaking. We have 

 had this variety in bearing two or three years, under the 

 name of "New Spring Beurre." It is a large, dark russety, 

 late pear, keeping till spring, and though becoming somewhat 

 melting when ripened in a warm temperature, it is surpassed 

 by so many other pears of the season, that it can claim no 

 higher rank than a stewing variety, for Vi^hich purpose it has 

 been found excellent, " acquiring a fine rose color without 

 the aid of cochineal." The tree is a good grower, and bears 

 an abundant crop, which may be used all through the winter 

 till May. Mr. Thompson considers it a " valuable acquisition." 



A Model Pear Cultivator. — A writer who signs his name 

 M. W. Stevens, and dates from Long Island, passed a " few 

 weeks among the fruit-growers of Massachusetts," the last 

 autumn, when he noticed " that an error prevails among them 



