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Skin^ slightly rough, greenish yellow, becoming pale yellow 

 when mature, broadly marked with bright red, and mottled 

 with dots of a deeper shade, often russeted around the crown, 

 and regularly and thickly covered with large, distinct, russet 

 specks : Stem, medium length, about an inch long, rather 

 stout, curved, inserted in a shallow cavity, formed by swell- 

 ings and projections of the fruit, highest on one side : Bye, 

 medium size, open, and slightly sunk in a very shallow, plaited 

 or furrowed basin ; segments of the calyx short, stiff, project- 

 ing : Flesh, yellowish white, coarse, melting and juicy : Flavor, 

 rich, slightly vinous, perfumed and excellent : Core, rather 

 large : Seeds, small. Ripe in November. 



Our drawing was made from fruit selected from a dozen 

 specimens sent us by a friend, who possesses one of the finest 

 trees any where to be found ; it is upwards of twenty feet 

 high, and bore several bushels last season. It stands in a 

 garden within a few rods of our residence at Cambridge, and 

 was grafted when the Dix was first brought into notice. We 

 make this remark, as the figure of the Dix in Mr. Downing's 

 book is so unlike any thing we have ever seen, that we should 

 suppose it was taken for almost any other pear than that. 

 Our drawing is an exact outline of more than two thirds of 

 the twelve pears which were sent to us last autumn. 



Art. IV. A Chapter on Tulips. By E. W. 



We have regretted to notice, of late years, a great indiffer- 

 ence to the cultivation of the Tulip, and the few beds that 

 have been formed in this vicinity, were soon discontinued, 

 the names lost, and they have, we believe, been finally broken 

 up and disposed of. This is much to be regretted — for, in the 

 whole range of the attractions of a well cultivated garden, 

 the effect of a bed of tulips, when in full bloom, is one of the 

 most striking ; whether it is owing to the representations of 

 the beautiful varieties depicted by the old masters in their 

 paintings, and probably painted from nature — though formerly 

 so different from any thing we had ever seen, that we believ- 

 ed them to be only the productions of the imagination, or 



