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Notes and Comments. 



The Bar Seckel is a new pear which originated with Jacob Moore, 

 combines the size of the Bartlett with very nearly the Seckel flavor. 



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The Brilliant, one of Prof. Munson's hybrid grapes, is said to be one of 

 the best red varieties. The vine is a good grower, perfectly healthy, and bears 

 well. The bunches are of good size, fruit red, nearly as large as Concord, and 

 of the very best quality, ripening July 20, with very little rot. 



The Vermont Beauty is spoken of as the most desirable of all dessert 

 pears : it is hardy in Vermont, its native State, and is a good shipper. The 

 Rural New Yorker says : " The fruit ripens a little later than the Seckel and 

 much excels that variety in size and beauty. In form the fruit is of full medium 

 size, obovate, yellow, and covered on the sunny side with a bright carmine-red, 

 making it indeed a beauty. The flesh is rich, juicy, aromatic. It cannot do 

 otherwise than stand at the head of our fall pears." Dr. Hoskins says that it is 

 •• the most piquant in flavor of any pear known." 



Native hazelnuts, according to the same journal, are too small to have any 

 market value, and until they are increased in size by seedling cultivation we 

 must look to the English filbert if we would engage in profitable work. A. S. 

 Fuller, who owns a small farm near the Rural Grounds, details his disastrous 

 experience in the Xew York Tribune, in the matter of cultivating in quantity 

 the English filbert. His trees grew finely for a few years, but, before they bore 

 many nuts, were killed by blight. This has been the experience of others. 



