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more, Norway, Sugar, Silver and Scarlet maples ; the Amer- 

 ican and English limes ; the Italian aspen ; the American ash ; 

 the American beech ; the hornbeam and tupelo tree ; the chest- 

 nuts and oaks ; all good growers, and possessing the proper 

 requisites for street trees, unless very narrow, when the Amer- 

 ican elm is the least desirable. Let no planter therefore con- 

 fine himself to ailanthuses or abeles, but scattering them spar- 

 ingly throughout his grounds, introduce others whose growth, 

 though not quite so rapid, or whose foliage, though not so 

 massive, yet present other beauties which make up in what 

 the latter is wanting. Above all, do not hastily and wantonly 

 destroy a good tree, even if it be an ailanthus or abele. 



Art. II. Description of Select Varieties of Pears. 

 By the Editor. 



The acquisitions to our collection of pears have been 

 much richer the last season, than for any previous year for 

 some time. More caution seems to have been observed by 

 foreign cultivators and amateurs in sending out new varieties, 

 than formerly, owing, undoubtedly, to the distrust with which 

 the new ones are now received, unless vouched for in some 

 more definite way than a mere announcement in a catalogue. 

 Consequently a great number have already proved fine, and 

 many others of high promise, among the acquisitions of 1851 

 and 1852. The Beurre Clairgeau, Doyenne du Comice, Fon- 

 dante du Comice, Supreme de duimper, Beurre Superfine, 

 &c., are examples of what have been recently added to our 

 stock of superior pears. We now figure and describe several 

 new ones. 



151. Grand Soliel. 



This fine pear, (fig. 1\,) fruited, we believe, for the first 

 time in American collections, last year. It promises to be- 

 come a popular and generally cultivated variety, scarcely sur- 



