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" Pound Pear " are also valuable fruits for winter use. They 

 are prolific bearers, keep remarkably well, and always com- 

 mand a good price in the market. 



In some parts of the Commonwealth, the cultivation of Cran- 

 berries is beginning to engage attention as a source of revenue. 

 The demand for this fruit is extensive, the supply limited, and 

 the price consequently high. There is much land suited to 

 their culture, which at present yields little or no income. — 

 Strawberries will also handsomely remunerate labor in the vi- 

 cinity of cities and large towns. The purple grape of our 

 woods, which makes a delicious conserve, may be reared with 

 advantage. 



More attention should be paid to garden fruit culture. Ev- 

 ery individual possessing a garden, can, in a few years, sup- 

 ply his family with all the summer and autumn fruits in rich 

 abundance, with little expense beyond the leisure moments 

 that may be employed for such purpose.* In the cultivation of 

 fruit, luxury and health are for once unued. 



For ten years past, this society has, with commendable spir- 

 it, encouraged the cultivation of Flowers. This is at once a 

 delightful and innocent recreation, and I never pass a farm- 

 house, graced with the gaudy marigold, showy peony, or splen- 

 did dahlia, nor the humble cottage window, with its pot of modest 

 daisies, without an awakening sympathy for their inmates. Nor 

 is the mora/ influence of floriculture to be overlooked. It brings 

 the mind so immediately in contact with the Infinite One, by 

 whom the numerous orders of the floral world were formed and 

 received their varied hues, and so exhibits wisdom and design 

 in their structure, that he who " has considered the lily." the 

 fabled love of Juno, so beautiful in its texture, and so admira- 



*Mr. John M. Ives, of Salem, one of our most skillful Pomologists, in his enlarged edi- 

 tion of Manning's New England Fruit Book, recommends the following selection of pears 

 for garden culture : 



Summer Fruit. Madaleine, Bloodgood, Dearborn's Seedling, Early Rousalette, Summer 

 Franc Real. Autumn Fruit. Belle Lucrative, Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, Urbaniste, 

 Gushing, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Andrews, Long Green, Beurre Bosc, Louisa Bonne de 

 Jersey, Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Washington, Seckel, Bon Chretien Fondante. Winter 

 Fruit. Beurre d'Aremberg, Winter Nelis, Lewis, Easter Beurre, Vicar of Wakefield 

 Cooking Fruit. Catillac, Black Pear of Worcester, Dr. Hunt's Winter. 



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