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highly perfumed, buttery, with a very shght disposition to 

 astringency. Seed vessel full and large, tree strong and 

 vigorous in its growth ; wood dark brown, buds large and 

 prominent. The original tree was found growing on the farm 

 of Mr. Jedediah Hill, on the Hamilton road, twelve miles 

 north of Cincinnati. Mr. Hill states that he brought the 

 seed from ^e\v Jersey ten or twelve years since, from 

 which this tree originated. The tree bore fruit for the first 

 time in 1841 ; in 1842 it produced no fruit, but last season 

 it again fruited, though not so perfectly as in the first year. 

 The Committee of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society 

 named it Hill's Fall Butter, in compliment to the owner of 

 the tree. The above description by our correspondent, Mr. 

 Ernst, we copy from the Wester7i Farmer and Gardener, 

 published at Cincinnati. 



McLavghlan. — The late Mr. Manning first introduced 

 this variety to notice, and gave a short description of it in 

 our Vol. Vni. p. 62; but it* has never, we believe, been, 

 fruited anywhere except in the vicinity of its native lo- 

 cality, but in the Pomological Garden, and is comparatively 

 a nev/ fruit. Last December specimens were presented 

 before the Mass. Hort. Society, which the committee pro- 

 nounced to be excellent. It is a large sized fruit, greenish 

 yellow skin, melting and juicy. Ripe, December and Jan- 

 uary. 



Pennsylvania. — This is another native variety, first in- 

 troduced into the vicinity of Boston by Mr. Manning, and 

 now found in several collections around Salem, where fine 

 specimens were grown in 1843, which were exhibited by 

 Mr. II. Manning before the Mass. Hort. .Society, and by 

 J. S. Cabot, Esq. and other gentlemen at the annual exhi- 

 bition of the Essex County Natural History Society, in 

 Salem. It is a large fruit, of obovate form ; skin pale yel- 

 lowish green, much russeted, and deeply suffused with red 

 on the sunny side ; flesh yellowish white, coarse, tender, 

 slightly melting and juicy. Ripe in October. This variety 

 was raised some years since by J. B. Smith, Esq., Philadel- 

 phia. 



Many other seedlings have come under our notice, but 

 as they have been without names, and their merits yet un- 

 certain, we defer giving an account of them until another 

 year. 



