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Chretien Napoleon, Catillac, and Leon le Clerc. Messrs. Jamin and Du- 

 rand exhibited 100 varieties, and among them noble specimens of Duchesse 

 d'Angouleme, Beurr6 Incomparable, Belle Angtvine, Bon Chretien Napo- 

 leon, Leon le Clerc, Bon Chretien d'Hiver, Beurr6 Gris Dor6, Colmar 

 d'Aremberg, Catillac, Colmar Van Mons, Belle Alliance, Beurr^ Bosc, 

 Limon, Beurr6 de Sterkmann, Rosaline, Triomphe de Jodoigne, Philippe 

 de France, and Josephine. M. Goutier contributed six finely grown pines. 

 {Gard. Chron., 184Q, p. 694.) 



Art. IL Domestic Notices. 



Van ZandVs Superb Peach. — Mr. Prince, in speaking of Van Zandt's 

 Superb Peach, says, "there does not perhaps exist, at present, a single 

 tree of the true variety, except in our specimen orchard and nursery 

 grounds." 



I should like to inquire of Mr. Prince if he seriously believes all the 

 " Van Zandt's Superb Peach" sold by himself and the other nurserymen of 

 Flushing for the last ten years or more, to be "spurious;" — unless they 

 have been, I can assure him there are hundreds and perhaps thousands of 

 the true variety, besides those in his nursery. This is a Flushing Peach, 

 and the nurserymen there have cultivated it and sold it extensively, and if 

 they have been deceiving the public, as Mr. P. intimates, it should be 

 known. — Yours respectfully, P. B., Rochester, November, 1846. 



Fancy Dahlias. — Have you seen any Fancy Dahlias superior to Harle- 

 quin, Viscount Ressegeur, and Oddity? These, I think, are unsurpassed. 

 Harlequin stands first for form. I have never seen any thing to beat it. 

 Yours, P. B. 



[Punch, Columbine, and Isis, in their way, are superior to either of the 

 above, though they are certainly very fine. — Ed-I 



The Dix Pear. — A profitable Tree. — A neighbor of ours, who resides but a 

 few rods from us, and in whose garden stands the Dix pear, which we have 

 already noticed, in our description of this variety, (p. 181,) has recently 

 harvested the crop. After the high winds of autumn, and more particular- 

 ly the gale of the 13th of September, he gathered, about the 1st of Novem- 

 ber, two barrels of pears. These were intended for his own use ; but a 

 dealer, who had seen the pears upon the tree, and knew something of their 

 value, made him the tempting offer oi fourteen dollars for one barrel. Hav- 

 ing so large a quantity, he reluctantly consented to let them go. Some 

 weeks subsequent to this, in conversation with the person who purchased 

 them, we inquired how much he gained by his purchase ; he stated that he 

 had sold tiventy-five dozen at five shillings per dozen, and eight dozen at 

 about seventy-five cents per dozen, the latter being of the smallest size, the 

 barrel netting upwards of twenty-three dollars ; the whole having been sold 

 to retail dealers in Boston, <o se/Z ag-am. Thus the two barrels, had they 



