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be small and rather scrubby. It being, however, generally- 

 fair and handsome, we commend its culture to our farmers. 



Williams'' Early Red. This variety, when planted upon a 

 warm and deep soil, with high manuring, produces a beauti- 

 ful fruit, above medium size, but in a light, thin soil, it is 

 small and indifferent. It will not accommodate itself, as has been 

 said of the Baldwin, to almost every variety of soil and aspect; 

 but under the above mode of culture it deserves a place in ev- 

 ery garden and orchard, and will then command a greater price 

 than any apple coming thus early in the season. 



Porter. This is a Massachusetts apple, first raised by Rev. 

 Mr. Porter, of Sherburne. It is deservedly a great favorite as 

 a dessert fruit, and commands a good price in the markets. 

 The tree is very productive, the fruit rather large and oblong, 

 ripening in September. 



Haskell Sweet. Originated on the farm of Dea. Haskell, in 

 Ipswich, (now owned by Mr. Nourse, of the firm of Ruggles, 

 Nourse & Mason,) and on which the original stock is now 

 standing. It is one of the best, if not the best fall sweeting. 

 It is extenfively cultivated in western New York, and deserves 

 to be better known in New England. By Cole it is called the 

 Sassafras apple. It is large, and very juicy, in eating from the 

 middle of October to the middle of November. The nursery 

 trees are straight and good growers. 



PEARS. 

 So many varieties of this fruit have been brought forward, 

 it is difficult to say which are, upon the whole, most desirable 

 for general cultivation ; for while many of the new Belgian 

 and Flemish kinds succeed well, as they often do, in the shel- 

 tered and warm gardens of our cities, they canker and blast in 

 open country exposure. The best varieties of pears, are those 

 originated in our own country, or in the more temperate and 

 colder latitudes of Europe. Many of the old varieties hereto- 

 fore cultivated, are now displaced by better sorts. It was well, 

 at our former shows, to bring forward those that were found, 

 upon trial, indifferent if not worthless, in order that we should 

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