NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
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Such are the difficulties experienced in tracing the origin and name of 
a Pear for only fifty years ! 
A figure of the Glastonbury Pear will be found on page clxxxvi. 
NEW HYBRID SUNFLOWER. 
Many will think there are enough single Sunflowers already, and yet we 
welcome this one cordially, as we hope it will bear out its promise, which 
Fid. 176.— Helianthus H. G. Moon. {The Garden.) 
is — to be as good a flower as ' Miss Mellish,' and at the same time free 
from the too aggressive tendency of that lady to be always running away 
from home and establishing colonies at two or three yards' distance. The 
