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tivators take. What a quantity of delicious fruit might ^be 

 raised with a little care, — -fou?- hundred and hventy-jive 

 pounds in five years from one vine ! 



Let's calculate, as Mr. J. says. In New England there are, 

 at a low estimate, say three hundred thousand dwellings, 

 with sufficient ground to raise one or more vines. Now if 

 every house has but one, as well treated as Mr. Johnston's, 

 the total crop for five years would be sixty thousand tons, — 

 at the low price of four cents per pound, amounting to nearly 

 Jive million dollai's ! How great a luxury such a crop, and 

 how much it would add to the aggregate of our agricultural 

 productions ! 



We hope Mr. Gore will send us the results of his crop for 

 the coming season. 



Art. IV. Pomological Gossip. 



The Van Assene Pear. — We regret to see that our con- 

 temporary, Mr. Barry, has described this pear under a new 

 name, thus tending to increase, rather than lessen, the pres- 

 ent confusion in the names of fruits. He calls it the Van 

 AsscHE. We had supposed that a variety, now apparently 

 so old, (for we use the term old according to the date of its 

 introduction into our collections,) which was received from 

 Van Mons, by Mr. Manning, in 1835, would be free from 

 any change of name after a period of twenty years, during 

 which time it has been cultivated in all the amateur collec- 

 tions around Boston, often exhibited before the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, described by Mr. Manning, (Vol. VIII,) 

 and figured by us six years ago, (Vol. XIII, p. 60.) 



Notwithstanding it was raised by Van Mons, and sent to 

 Mr. Manning as the Van Assene, in his own hand writing, 

 Mr. Barry states he has "followed Van Houtte, Bavay, and 

 others, who ought to be correct, as it is one of Bouvier's 

 varieties." Now this is news to us. We know Bouvier has 

 sent out to the world the Louise d'Orleans, which he de- 



