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fore let us grow such kinds as offer us 
the chance of growing that beautiful 
thing — a standard Pear tree. Well 
chosen, well grown, and well looked 
after and thinned, any one of these is 
worth a dozen of the doubtful or in- 
ferior kinds that are grown, and even 
figure in the prize 
dishes at shows. 
The following 
Pears I have sel- 
dom found good in 
quality, and some , 
of them fail alto- j 
gether : — Beurre \ 
d'Amanlis, Beurre 
Bosc,BeurreClair- 
geau, Beurre Diel, 
Beurre Ranee, 
Chaumontel,Con- 
seiller de la Cour, 
Durondeau, Ferti- 
lity, General Tot- 
leben. Knight's 
Monarch, Pitmas- 
ton Duchess, Sou- 
venir du Congres, 
Vicar of Wink - 
field. Belle des 
Abres, Bellissime 
d'Hiver, Gratioli, 
Hacon's Incom- 
parable, and Pas- 
se -Colmar. Not 
only would it be 
well not to plant any of these, but it 
would be a distinct gain to root them 
up where they are already growing, and 
plant a greater number of the kinds 
that are of high quality and attain their 
true character in our country. W. 
THE GREATER TREES OF THE 
NORTHERN FOREST.— No. 24. 
THE YEW {Taxi^s haccatd). 
I HAVE been reading the poets in a col- 
lection of many verses about the Yew ; 
and a sorry story they make of it to any- 
body who does not know the tree apart 
D Yew in Yewdalk, Conistcin. 
from the graveyard. "Sombre," "fu- 
nereal," and all the dismal epithets they 
can find, are tacked on to it one after 
another, by writers like so many sheep, 
following through a gap . Quite wrongly 
they judge of it only by one of its uses. 
