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intimates, in some measure account for the failure of the operation. In the 

 two cases in which he was successful in working the Hybrid on the Butter- 

 nut, his mode of grafting differed from any of those in ordinary use, and re- 

 quires special notice. In our preceding report we alluded to the great want 

 of success experienced by horticulturists in grafting the Walnut, and re- 

 commended two ways of obviating the difficulty. Mr. Peirce deserves our 

 cordial thanks for communicating to us a third one, which in his hands has 

 been attended by promising results. And that we might clearly compre- 

 hend it, he very kindly sent to a member of the Committee one of the two 

 trees he had successfully worked. His mode, which is a species of inarch- 

 ing or grafting by approach, is performed in the following manner : — A por- 

 tion of the scion, at a point about two-thirds of the distance from its lower 

 end, is pared away, well down into the alburnum, two inches in length ; a 

 corresponding portion of the stock, near its crown, is also removed. The 

 scion and the stock, after being both tonguedy are to be accurately adjusted, 

 so that the inner bark of the two shall be in exact opposition. He then 

 binds them firmly together, with a strip of bass matting, and applies a cover- 

 ing of grafting clay ; after which the earth i's heaped up around it. Be- 

 fore proceeding to the operation, it is of course necessary to remove the 

 earth from about the root of the stock sufficiently for to enable the heel of 

 the scion to penetrate some distance below the surface. Mr. Peirce thinks 

 he removed the top of the stock at the time the graft was inserted, but sug- 

 gests the propriety of allowing it to remain until complete union between 

 the scion and the stock is fully established, and then cutting it off close 

 down to the connection. The theoretical advantages of the mode of graft- 

 ing now described, in cases of unusal difficulty, are obvious ; and its practi- 

 cal utility is strikingly exemplified in the worked specimen very kindly for- 

 warded to us by Mr. Peirce. Although not entirely novel, the plan 1 had 

 probably never before been resorted to in the case of the Walnut. A pro- 

 ceeding somewhat analogous has been employed in propagating the Camellia, 

 in which case, however, the heel of the scion is immersed in a vessel of water, 

 instead of being inserted m the earth. 



Beurre Clairgeau.— f £h\$ large and valuable new foreign pear, received 

 from Hon. B. V. French, was noticed, and an exterior description given of it 

 in our October ad interim report. The specimen, not being sufficiently ma- 

 ture at that time for testing, was laid aside, and was not cut till the 9th of 

 December, when it was somewhat shriveled. We now complete the descrip- 

 tion commenced in October. Core under medium ; seed dark brown, small 

 for the size of the fruit, elongated, narrow, plump, with a prominent angle 

 at the obtuse end ; flesh yellowish-white, buttery, melting; flavor, perfumed, 



