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In the same summer, a pear-tree of the brown Bury 

 kind at the White Swan, in Hyde-Street, in the suburbs 

 of Winchester, blossomed in May, again in June, a third 

 time in July, and a fourth time in August ; in the month 

 of October the four progressive crops were hanging on 

 the branches, 



Mr. Worlidge notices a pear-tree that was growing 

 near Ross in Herefordshire, in 1675, that was, he says, 

 " as wide in the circumference as three men could encom- 

 pass with their extended arms, and of so large a head 

 that the fruit of it yielded seven hogsheads of perry in 

 one year. 



Mr. John Wheeler of Horsham has favoured us with 

 the particulars of a pear-tree, which he planted at Hill's 

 Place, near that town, about thirty-eight years back, and 

 which has been in general very productive ; the tree is 

 about ten feet in height, and the branches extend fifty- 

 eight feet, and are only prevented by other trees from a 

 still greater extension. The pear is of the jargonelle 

 kind, and the fruit sells in the country at three shillings 

 per dozen ; a price that ought to induce a farther culti- 

 vation of pear-trees : besides which, we have often ob- 

 served, that pear-trees are productive in years when 

 apples fail. 



When we reflect on the labours of the horticulturists who 

 have, by cultivation, made the pear-tree forget its natural 

 thorns, and instead of an acerb berry produce us a fruit so 

 fair and nectareous, we find our warmest gratitude an in- 

 sufficient return ; while from the nurserymen, whose study 

 it is to bring to our shores the improved grafts of every 

 clime to cheer the sense and glad the heart, our warmest 

 support and fullest approbation cannot be withheld. Let 

 us hope that those who have a still greater charge, that 

 of the cultivation of the mind of the rising generation, 

 will be equally assiduous in engrafting their young stocks 



