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gress which has attended the culture of good fruit in the 

 neighborhood of Boston. 



The prenfiiums awarded will be found in another page ; 

 but as it may interest many to know the varieties, we give 

 a list of them here : — 



The best twelve varieties of twelve specimens each, which 

 obtained the first premium, were, Van Mons Leon le Clerc, 

 Dunmore, Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre d'Amalis, Golden Beurre of 

 Bilboa, Beurre Diel, Duchesse of Angouleme, Columbia, 

 Urbaniste, Glout Morceau, Le Cure and Catillac, in Mr. 

 Wilder's collection. 



The second best twelve Avere : Knight's Monarch, Hull, 

 Swan's Orange, Beurre d'Anjou, Le Cure, Louise Bonne of 

 Jersey, Buerre d'Amalis, White Doyenne, Beurre Diel, Wil- 

 liams's Bon Chretien, Dunmore, and Beurre Seutin, in the 

 collection of Messrs. Hovey & Co, 



The third best twelve were : Brown Beurre, Beurre Bosc, 

 Q,ueen of the Low Countries, Van Mons Leon le Clerc, 

 Winter Nelis, Dnchesse ofAngouleme, Louise Bonne of Jersey, 

 Beurre d'Amalis, Glout Morceau, Beurre Diel, ButFum and 

 Marie Louise, in the collection of Mr. Gordon. 



These were all finely grown,, large, fair, and every way 

 splendid, giving evidence of what the several kinds will do 

 when under good management. 



Art. VIIL Notes on Gardens and Nm'series. 



Residence of Mrs. W. P. Winchester^ Camlridgc. We 

 recently visited this new place, but a short period after the 

 death of the late proprietor, and as we walked up the avenue 

 towards the mansion, a feeling of grief came over us, that one 

 who but a few weeks before was in the enjoyment of so 

 much beauty as this residence afforded, should rest in that 

 sleep which " knows no waking," almost within hearing of 

 the spot, where his hopes and expectations had concentrated, 

 and where years of contentment and happiness appeai-ed laid 



