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The following are the names of several seedling apples 

 which were exhibited at the last annual exhibition of the 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society. The report of 

 the exhibition having been mislaid, we are unable now only 

 to give the names ; at another time we shall offer the re- 

 marks of the committee in regard to their qualities : — 

 Capron's Pleasant. Coe's Housewife, Coe's Spice, Earle's 

 Greening, Hogpen and Red Cheek. 



Pears. — Several new native varieties of pears have been 

 brought into notice the past year, and out of the number 

 four or live of them promise to be valuable, or at least de- 

 sirable kinds. These have all been mentioned in the reports 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, in our last vol- 

 ume, (IX.) but those which possess the greatest merit we 

 now enumerate again, adding some information not before 

 given. We have drawings and descriptions of all the va- 

 rieties, which we shall present to our readers after the trial 

 of another season. 



It is gratifying to see more zeal manifested in the subject 

 of seedling fruits ; with such fine specimens of American 

 pears as have already been discovered in our gardens and 

 fields, cultivators should be encouraged in continuing their 

 investigations, with the hope of detecting others equally 

 valuable. The success of the late Mr. Knight, and of Dr. 

 Van Mons, as well as other Belgian and French cultiva- 

 tors, should also be a sufficient inducement to amateurs to 

 make them attempt the production of new seedling vari- 

 eties. 



Hull. — Of medium size and obovate form; skin yellow- 

 ish green, russeted ; flesh yellowish white, coarse, melt- 

 ing, juicy, and pleasantly perfumed. A great bearer. Ripe 

 in October. The original tree of this variety was found in the 

 town of Swanzey, Mass., and is now about forty years old. 

 It formerly stood in an old orchard, and is undoubtedly the 

 accidental product of some of the seeds which fell from 

 other trees. 



Wilbur. — Though this variety has been known five or 

 six years, and is now introduced into our gardens, it is 

 comparatively new. It is rather below medium size, and 

 of a dull green color; flesh melting, juicy and good. Ripe 

 in September. The original tree is now sixty years old, 

 and stands on the farm of Mr. D. Wilbur, Jr., in Somerset, 



