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the top, which on close examination will usually be found to 

 have originated at or near the base of the trunk." 



We close this evidence against root-grafted trees, with the 

 experience of another cultivator in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, as 

 given in the last number of the Wisconsin Panne?' : — 



•' There is also this exception, and that is, that there is a 

 difference between top and root grafts. Top grafts and 

 seedlings have not suffered as much as root grafts, although 

 exposed to the same extent." 



New Native Pears. — At the meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society in Rochester, N. Y., in September, 

 among the fruits brought forward for trial were three new 

 pears from New Rochelle, N. Y., exhibited by Mr. Carpenter. 

 The committee on native fruits made a report upon them, 

 which will appear in the printed transactions. They were 

 respectively called the Huntington, Church, and Parsonage : 

 of these we have drawings and descriptions, which will ap- 

 pear in our next volume. They all promise well, and we 

 doubt not will rank among our best pears. 



It is singular that they should not have been brought to 

 the notice of cultivators before. The parent trees are very 

 large and old ; our friend Mr. Berckmans, of New Jersey, 

 has recently visited the locality where they grow, to examine 

 the trees, and sends us the following account of them : — 



" I went on a pilgrimage to New Rochelle, and paid my 

 humble respects to these three noble seedlings. The Church 

 is, or may be, from seventy to one hundred years old ; has 

 from six to seven feet circumference at two feet above the 

 ground ; has not a sick or decayed limb, and spreads its lordly 

 top over three or four square rods. The Huntington is a fine 

 erect pyramid, which, unfortunately, has been allowed to 

 divide at six or seven feet into two leaders, running close 

 together and of equal size. The poor fellow is on a rock for 

 all subsoil ! Still he seems vigorous enough and bears well. 

 The Church bears very well, also, fourteen to twenty bushels. 

 The Parsonage is a constant bearer, though much neglected 

 of late, and wants only a few sound saw-and-axe operations 

 to renovate its wood ; it bears from ten to twenty bushels 



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