42 New Pears introduced by Mr. Braddick. 



atmospheric changes, and consequently frost, in a dry situation, 

 I conceive will keep as well in any other place as in my deep 

 cellar. At Ditton, I used to keep it in the middle of the 

 house, in a closet surrounded by three walls and three doors, 

 not being able there to go much under ground." 

 " Boughton Mount, Oct. 3\st, 1826." 



The same effect which Mr. Braddick notices as being pro- 

 duced on keeping fruits by copious rains after a very dry sum- 

 mer, every farmer knows is also produced on bread corn, 

 potatoes, and roots, as well as to a certain extent upon hay 

 and straw, and doubtless also upon coppice-wood and basket 

 willows. A sort of second sap seems to have come into many 

 trees from the same cause, which, though it has not produced 

 shoots, yet the leaves, instead of falling off at the usual time, 

 though they have become black with the late frosts, yet still 

 adhere. 



Of the pears enumerated above, those marked (*) are de- 

 cidedly the best. Among the summer pears sent, the Belle 

 Lucrative and Beurre Kirke were remarkably handsome. 

 In our next we propose to give a descriptive list of twenty sorts 

 of pears, introduced and fruited by Mr. Braddick ; plants of 

 nearly ali of which, it is believed, may now be had in the nur- 

 series, owing to the very liberal und truly patriotic manner in 

 which our highly-valued correspondent shares every novelty 

 he receives with those whose interest it is to increase and disse- 

 minate such novelties. This, in our opinion, is the true and 

 legitimate, and in fact the only real and permanent mode of 

 effecting improvements ; it is the natural, and, if the expression 

 may be used, healthy way of introducing them, in which sup- 

 ply and demand are reciprocal. It is quite possible, that, by 

 extraordinary exertions, new things and new ideas may be in- 

 troduced faster than they can be incorporated with the old. 

 In the same way, that, by the use of stimulants, an artificial 

 appetite may be created, and more food taken into the sto- 

 mach than can be digested. We think it much more conso- 

 nant with sound principles of policy, and especially in a free 

 and wealthy country such as Britain, that improvements should 

 be made by individuals, rather than public bodies. The lat- 

 ter, in our opinion, will do most good by seconding the efforts 

 of private persons; by removing the impediments in their 

 way, and bringing obscure men into notice. When public 

 bodies attempt improvements themselves, unless these im- 

 provements be such as no individual can undertake, the effect 

 is to discourage individuals, which must end in injuring the 



