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difficulty in procuring the materials, although they are of very 

 little value ; even the leading will be tardily complied with, 

 unless gentlemen will be pointed in giving their land-agents 

 strict orders to do 50, (which I hope in future will be particu- 

 larly attended to.) As celery is intended to be planted yearly 

 in the trenches, there will be no loss of ground, as some may 

 anticipate, as all can be levelled down and croped with any 

 kind of vegetable that will be gathered before the time to 

 plant celery. 



If a good stock of celery plants are planted in a composi- 

 tion as directed above (but not in a hot-bed), upon a piece of 

 ground beat hard to prevent the roots striking deep, you may 

 with these plants fill the early celery trenches the second time 

 in the same year, and one quarter of the dung used in the 

 common way will do to renew the trenches after the first 

 year. By allowing the plants four inches distance from each 

 other in the composition, they will grow strong and remove 

 when twelve or fifteen inches high, and be soon ready to 

 earth up. I am, Sir, &c. 



George Gledston. 

 Netherwitton, near Morpeth, Northumberland, 

 Sept. 7. 1826. 



Art. X. List of select New Pears introduced by John Brad- 

 dick, Esq. F.H.S. with their Time of ripening and other 

 Particulars. Communicated by Mr. Braddick. 



Dear Sir, 

 In consequence of the many applications which are daily 

 making to me, respecting the characters of such new pears as 

 have fruited in my collection, I judge that it will be of service 

 to those who may be desirous of possessing the most approved 

 varieties of new pears, to set down the best of them, in the 

 order that they become fit for the dessert. And here I think 

 it necessary to premise, that the following list is the cream 

 skimmed off some thousands of new pears, which I have for 

 many years past been getting together from various parts of 

 the world, about two thirds of which yet remain for trial, not 

 having fruited, together with some thousands of seedling pears, 

 apples, plums, cherries, apricots, peaches, and grapes, of my 

 own raising; the fruits of some of which I hope will continue 

 to gladden the hearts of horticulturists for many centuries to 



