OCTOBER. 457 



£ s. d. 



Glass, 2 5 6 



Gratuity to the gardener, . . . 5 7 



Total expense, . . , .£709 



• The glazing, painting, and making the straw mats, having 

 been done by the gardener at spare times in winter, are not 

 taken into account. 



POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. 



Fine Pears at the last Annual Exhibition of the 

 Mass. Hort. Soc. — Another very favorable season, more so 

 in some respects than the last, has enabled our cultivators to 

 keep up the quality of their pears to that of 1855, a very 

 good standard. Some kinds were fairer and larger than last 

 year, while others were more spotted or smaller ; but on the 

 whole, the exhibition of this fruit surpassed that of last sea- 

 son. A little more warmth, with the same quantity of rain, 

 would have swelled out the pears to an enormous size. The 

 following are the names of the kinds in the two largest col- 

 lections : — 



From Hovey & Co., 30 varieties, 12 specimens each, viz, : 

 Beurre Diel, B. Sterckman, B. Golden of Bilboa, B. d'Anjou, 

 B. Clairgeau, Glout Morceau, Sheldon, Dix, St. Michael 

 Archangel, Marie Louise, F. Beauty, St. Menin, Dunmore, 

 Adams, Urbaniste, Swan's Orange, Doyenne Boussock, Le 

 Cure, Gansell's Bergamot, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Bartlett, 

 Lawrence, Pratt, Duchess of Orleans, Paradise of Autumn, 

 Duchess, Triumph de Jodoigne, Doyenne Sterckman, and 

 Belle Lucrative. 



From M. P. Wilder, 30 varieties, 12 specimens each, viz. : 

 Beurre Diel, B. Sterckman, B. d'Anjou, B. Clairgeau, Glout 

 Morceau, Urbaniste, Swan's Orange, Doyenne Boussock, Le 

 Cure, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Bartlett, Lawrence, Triumph 

 de Jodoigne, Bonne des Zees, Belle Epine Dumas, Beurre 



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