306 Fruits and Fruit Trees of Arnerica. 



destroyer, (of which I had been warned by Mr. Russell, lately Correspond- 

 ing Secretary to the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, who had with rap- 

 tures viewed the ample load of perfect fruit under which the trees were 

 bending,) in the form of a thick coating of black rust, over the surface of 

 the fruit, before half grown, which caused the skin to crack, shrivel, dry 

 up, and the fruit become worthless. After witnessing this mortifying sight 

 two or three years, I grafted other sorts in the trees, which are doing well. 

 This disease is not confined to my place, but has prevailed in Indiana, and 

 other parts of the West, for many years, so much so, that a highly respec- 

 table nurseryman, near Richmond, Indiana, (Andrew Hampton,) told me 

 years ago that he should as soon think of taking a man's money out of his 

 pocket, as to sell him a tree of the fruit referred to, although he had large 

 trees in his nursery at the time." {Farm, and Gard., Vol. V., p. 237.) 



This quite refutes the statements at pp. 379 and 556, that 

 to have fine fruit of the White Doyenne, it is " only neces- 

 sary to renew the stock by procuring it from healthy sources," 

 that source being from an inland nursery, and not from the 

 '■'■ sea coast, where the climate is naturally unfavorable to the 

 pear." We would ask the author where he ever saw the 

 same quantity, or finer, pears, than he has witnessed in Bos- 

 ton ? It certainly will be time to condemn the climate, when 

 other portions of the country can equal the splendid crops, 

 even of the cultivators at Salem, directly upon the sea coast. 



It was not necessary, in order to attack the opinions of Mr. 

 Kenrick, relative to the doctrine of outcasts, to denounce our 

 climate as rude — the soil sandy — the trees unhealthy — the 

 stocks mere suckers. Such sweeping remarks have no weight, 

 and only tend to lessen confidence in the author's good judg- 

 ment and knowledge. We feel it our duty to speak in behalf 

 of the cultivators around Boston, and state that the}'-, of all 

 others, have been the last to use suckers, or propagate from 

 unhealthy stocks — the imputation they disown. Some of the 

 first pear trees brought to America are now growing in New 

 England, and bear good crops, and that too on the sandiest 

 of all candy soils. Cape Cod. Where did the Ciishing, Dix, 

 Andrews, Fulton, Heathcot, Harvard, Dearborn's Seedling, 

 Lewis, Johonnet, Hull, Cabot, Locke, &c. originate? Out of 

 more than fifty excellent American varieties, not ten of them 

 originated out of New England ; and yet it is stated that our 

 "climate is naturally unfavorable to the pear." Our author 

 well knows that the late Mr. Manning supplied scions to cul- 



