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of England. Mr. Wilmot, many years ago, raised a seedling 

 called Wilmot's Superb, which was figured in the Transac- 

 tions of the London Horticultural Society, and described as 

 one of the largest and finest sorts ever seen ; but it wholly 

 disappeared in a few years. Mr. Myatt has raised a dozen 

 or more seedlings, but none of them are worth anything but 

 the British Q,ueen. The Britannia strawberry, which is so 

 highly praised, only produces " six or eight fruit on one 

 stem," which at once tells its own story ; our American sorts 

 producing fifteen to twenty. We hope, however, some of 

 these sorts may find their way into our gardens, and have a 

 fair trial. 



Wendell Pear. — This is the name given, in honor of our 

 correspondent, Dr. H. Wendell, to one of Van Mons's seed- 

 lings which has fruited in the Pomological Garden at Salem. 

 It is a summer pear, of excellent quality, and of medium 

 size, having a somewhat russetty skin, tinged with red on 

 the sunny side. We shall give a full description and engrav- 

 ing of it hereafter. 



Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. — The annual exhibition for 

 1850, which has just closed, was one of the most remarka- 

 ble, as regards the collection of fruit, ever made by the society 

 — and probably one of the greatest ever made by any society, 

 either abroad or at home. The report of the exhibition 

 shows the immense number of pears and apples exhibited ; 

 and when we state that the specimens were finer than any 

 ever placed upon the society's tables, some idea may be 

 formed of the display. The whole of the society's hall, 

 usually devoted to the display of fruit, was entirely filled 

 with pears and grapes — and this, too, with an additional 

 table, erected for the express purpose of accommodating the 

 contributors ; the store below, as well as the library-room 

 of the society, was fitted up with broad tables, and these 

 were covered with the apples, peaches and plums ; the former 

 being shown in great variety, and of extraordinary size, fair- 

 ness and beauty. Indeed, the whole exhibition was highly 

 gratifying to every pomologist, and evinced the rapid pro- 



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