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upright ones from that, which are alternately cut down to 

 produce new wood: few cultivators pay any attention to the 

 form in training a vine, but, to our eye, we think nothing 

 shows the skill of a good gardener quicker than the handsome 

 shape in which a vine or tree is trained. 



But the most remarkable specimen in Mr. Fowler's garden 

 is a tree of the Doyenne SieuUe pear, which has been plant- 

 ed about six years, is trained in the quenouille form, and now 

 full of fruit, some of the specimens, (especially one now before 

 us, sent us by Mr. Fowler, November 7,) weighing over twelve 

 ounces. Last year it produced upwards of a bushel. The 

 tree fully equalled any thing we saw in the French nur- 

 series, and it has been wholly brought into its present 

 handsome shape by Mr. Fowler from a very small tree ; 

 a work, however, of considerable labor. The specimens of 

 this variety, which is one of the very finest pears, usually seen in 

 the vicinity of Boston, are quite small and inferior, but as pro- 

 duced by Mr. Fowler, it is one of the very largest and best 

 kinds. The tree is upon the quince, and continues to grow 

 with much vigor : we are, therefore, under the impression 

 that, like many other pears, it needs a rich soil to be produced 

 in perfection. Mr. Fowler also grows the Easter Beurre to the 

 weight of twelve or fourteen ounces ! and upon the pear stock. 



Finer specimens of cultivation, and such superior fruit, raised 

 " along the seacoast, where the climate is rude, mid the soil 

 rather sandy, ''^ cannot be produced even "in the apparently cold 

 and clayey soil" on the Hudson River; and it sets at rest the 

 dogmatic idea that the decline of varieties is only " along the 

 seaboard, on Long Island, in New Jersey, near Hartford, and 

 around Boston." Mr. Fowler had a tree full of fruit, which 

 was purchased at auction five or six years ago as the Charles 

 d' Autriche ; but it is not that variety. It is a medium sized, 

 and very good pear, which we believe to be the Autumn Colmar 

 of Lindley : it is a most abundant bearer, and well worthy of 

 cultivation. Mr. Fowler has several varieties of pears in his lim- 

 ited garden, every part of which is made use of to a good purpose. 



Garden of N. M. Davis, Esq. — On the main street, near 

 the old Pilgrim Hall, is situated the Garden of Mr. Davis, 

 occupying about an acre of ground, which slopes otf to the 

 south, and full half of which is occupied as an apple orchard. 



