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rest informs us, that " the only account Mr. Willmott can give 

 of his new pear is, that, about ten years ago, his foreman, 

 Campbell, brought a cutting, but he does not know whence; 

 and it was grafted on the Napoleon pear; and this new pear is 

 the produce of the graft." — R. F. Oct. 2. 1836. 



Having, previously to receiving this information, directed the 

 attention of Mr. Thompson to the specimen of this pear in 

 Mr. Forrest's window, he sent us the following remarks : — ] 



" I have not sufficient information respecting Willmott's 

 new pear, exhibiting in Mr. Forrest's window at Kensington. I 

 believe that it is the same as the Monsieur le Cure of the 

 French. That sort will probably be soon obtained from Paris, 

 and the identity will then be better determined." 



[In the mean time, we hope that this pear, of the real merits 

 of which very little is known, will not be introduced into col- 

 lections under any fixed name, till its real one is ascertained. 

 We have no doubt that Mr. Forrest will take particular care not 

 to be instrumental in doing this ; because one of the points that he 

 professes particularly to attend to is, to use no names, in sending 

 out plants, without giving their legitimate authorities. Whoever 

 originates a new fruit from seed, imports a foreign one, or (as 

 in the case before us) revives an old one, ought, in our opinion, 

 previously to bringing it before the public, to submit it to Mr. 

 Thompson of the Horticultural Society's Garden, in order that 

 its merits may be determined by him; and, also, whether it is 

 really new or not. This is not only due to the Horticultural 

 Society, to the horticulture of this country, and to the public 

 generally, on the principle of maintaining order in nomencla- 

 ture; but to Mr. Thompson, as having a far greater knowledge 

 of fruits, than any other man in Britain, indeed, we might say 

 in Europe, has had an opportunity of acquiring. — Cond.'] 



Art. III. Olitorial Notices ; or, Notices of new Culinary Vegetables 

 deserving of general Cultivation in British Gardens. 



The sources of information to which we have had recourse, 

 in order to enable us to draw up this article, are various ; but 

 our main reliance has been on Mr. Charlwood. As clerk of 

 Covent Garden Market (an office which he has filled for several 

 years), Mr. Charlwood is personally acquainted with all the 

 principal market-gardeners and fruit-growers in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London ; and three times every week throughout 

 the year it becomes his duty to inspect their productions. Mr. 

 Charlwood informs us, that no perfectly new culinary vegetable 

 or fruit has been introduced into Covent Garden Market during 

 the past year ; or, as far as he knows, into private gardens. We 

 may here observe, that it has always been our opinion that more 



