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larly of pears. So far as regards the importation of new 

 sorts, very little has been done the past year. Several new 

 kinds raised from seed, have been brought into notice, and 

 they have appeared to possess valuable qualities: some of 

 them will be more fully noticed in this volume. We have, in 

 the past volume, described a kw new plums, raised by Mr. 

 Corse, of Montreal, which are said to possess great merits; 

 they have not, however, yet been introduced into our gardens. 

 The new seedling strawberry, which we have heretofore no- 

 ticed, a production of our own, has been fully described in 

 the past volume. It was exhibited at the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society's rooms, and pronounced, by all who saw 

 the fruit, to be, without hesitation, the finest variety ever 

 presented to the society. For an extended account of its 

 origin, productiveness, &c., the reader is referred to Vol. 

 VI., p. 284. We would invite amateurs and cultivators, 

 who feel desirous of possessing superior fruits, to the impor- 

 tance of raising seedlings, for it is from that source that we 

 are to look for fruit, upon the good qualities of which we can 

 rely with certainty. 



Mr. Manning has fruited a few new pears the past year, and 

 he will probably give us some account of the same: his re- 

 marks on some of the finest new sorts, as well as Mr. Down- 

 ing's excellent paper on the same subject, in the last volume, 

 will be found valuable to all who are making a collection of 

 fine varieties. Mr. Wilder, the President of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, exhibited a great variety of re- 

 markably fine specimens of pears — next in number to Mr. 

 Manning. Mr. IManning has fruited, and corrected the syno- 

 nymes of a great number of apples, and we have the promise 

 of an article from him, for our Pomological Notices, describ- 

 ing all the finest kinds. ]Mr. Manning has also raised some 

 seedling cherries, which have been noticed in the reports of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for the past year. It 

 will be gratifying to our friends to learn that Mr. Manning 

 will extend the sphere of his operations, by adding two or three 

 acres of land to his nursery. 



The Seymour system of training peach trees has now been 

 practised for three years, at Mr. Cushing's, Watertown, by 

 Mr. Haggerston, and he has found it, thus far, to be the best 

 method which he has ever known, for training the peach, 

 either in peacherias, or on the wall in the open air. The 

 trees are perfect models of symmetry and neatness, and there 



