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food for milch cows to improve the qiiahty of butter." We 

 should like to see it more extensively tried in our climate, and 

 on very light soils its introduction must be of much benefit. — 

 Ed. 



Art. III. Pomological Notices; or notices respecting new 

 and superior fruits worthy of general cultivation. Descrip- 

 tions and engravings of six varieties of pears. By the 

 Editor. 



Descriptions and engravings of forty-eight varieties of 

 pears have been given in our series of articles under the above 

 head, in the last three voliniies of the magazine, and ten other 

 engravings have accompanied the notices and descriptions of 

 new varieties by Mr. Manning and other correspondents. A 

 larger portion of them have been new and rare kinds, of 

 recent introduction, and first presented to pomologists in our 

 pages. It will be our aim to continue to offer descriptions 

 and engravings of every new pear, as soon as its merits shall 

 be fully established, and what, with the aid of Mr. Manning, 

 Col. Wilder, and other amateurs in the vicinity of Boston, 

 and our own collection, we shall possess facilities which will 

 enable us to do so at the earliest opportunity. We are now 

 gratified in offering the descriptions and engravings of six 

 pears, which, with one exception, have never before appeared 

 in any periodical or pomological work : and as rapidly as our 

 space will permit, we shall describe other valuable kinds of 

 which we have a large number of drawings. 



49.* Paradise d'Automne. Lon. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 



Very few of the more recently introduced pears combine 

 so much merit as the Paradise d'Automne, {fig. 14.) To say 

 that it is superior to the Beurre Bosc, which it greatly resem- 

 bles, is sufficient to convey to all lovers of fruit the best idea 

 of its excellence. It first fruited in this country in the pomo- 



* Owing to a typographical error in the enumeration of the varieties of pears de- 

 scribed in our last article, (p. 171,) numbers 37 to 42 v/exe duplicated ; they should 

 have numbered 43 to 48. 



