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is melting and juicy, and the flavor rich and good. Every 

 pear is entirely seedless. If the fruit, under good cultivation, 

 would attain to a medium size, it might well claim the atten- 

 tion of cultivators : independent of its remarkable quality of 

 having no seeds, its general merits are sufficient to render it 

 an acquisition to our collections. 



The Ohio Nonpareil Apple. — It will be recollected that 

 in a notice of this apple in a previous number, (p. 85,) by 

 our correspondent Dr. Kirtland, we remarked that the de- 

 scription answered very well for the Cogswell. Upon this 

 suggestion Mr, Bateham, of Columbus, Ohio, published some 

 remarks in the Ohio Farmer, in which he gave some account 

 of its history, so far as it could be traced, and from all he 

 could learn it appeared that the two were identical. This 

 called out Mr. Elliott, who described the Nonpareil in his 

 Fruit Book, and he asserted, in a long article, that the two 

 were quite distinct, and gave outlines of the apples to confirm 

 his opinion. At that time we intended to discuss the matter 

 further, and show by his own illustrations that he was in 

 error. But our remarks were crowded out, and the subject 

 escaped our attention until the recent exhibition in Philadel- 

 phia, where two lots of the Nonpareil were exhibited by 

 Pennsylvania cultivators. We were highly gratified to meet 

 with these specimens, as it at once enabled us to clear up all 

 doubts in regard to its identity. We write now with the 

 specimens before us, which prove to be nothing but the Cogs- 

 well, as described in our Magazine several years ago, and 

 figured in the second volume of the Fruits of America. It 

 was carried from Connecticut by Col. Cogswell's sons, up- 

 wards of thirty years ago, and has been extensively dissemi- 

 nated and cultivated in Ohio. A few years ago it was brought 

 forward as a new seedling and named Myers' Nonpareil, and 

 more recently Ohio Nonpareil. It is only another instance of 

 the confusion existing in the nomenclature of apples, espe- 

 cially at the West, where so many of their supposed seedlings 

 have proved to be old Eastern varieties. 



The Black Barbarossa Grape. — Fine specimens of this 

 new grape were recently exhibited at one of the weekly,. 



