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decidedly superior to those here named, we hope that they will 
inform us of the fact, and enable us to communicate it for the 
benefit of others, seeing that the best fruit is as easily cultivated 
as the most worthless. 
We have alluded to the origin of the Seckle Pear. The 
cori ect spelling of the name of this pear, we have been politely 
informed by T. B. Barclay, Esq., of Wavretree Lodge, Liver- 
pool, is Seckel; and that the occasion of its application, and 
the introduction of the pear to notice, is as follows. About fifty 
years ago a portion of that fine range of pasture ground, 
spreading from Philadelphia to the confluence of the Delaware 
and Schuylkill, belonged to a German, who discovered, in one 
of his meadows, the pear-tree in question. The quality of the 
fiiiit being very superior, it was soon increased, and spread far 
and wide, under its discoverer’s name, Seckel (not Seckle, as 
usually spelt). As no other tree of the same description has 
been found in the United States, it is of course considered, says 
3Ir. Barclay, to be a cutting brought by some early European 
settler, probably from Holland, or possibly from Sweden, this 
very spot having been first taken possession of by settlers from 
those countries, wliere, possibly, the parent tree of the variety 
may yet be found. 
190 Gkkenhouse Plants in the Open Garden. The practice 
of transplanting greenhouse and half-hardy plants into the 
flower garden, in May, or the beginning of .June, for the purpose 
of enlivening the liorders with their blossoms during summer 
and autumn, is justly carried to a considerable extent, in most 
places, with such showy plants, as all the varieties of Verbenas, 
Salvias, Fuchias, Lobelias, Anagallis, &c. This practice may 
be extended to almost all other soft-wooded free-flowering green- 
house and half-hardy plants, lioth frutescent and herbaceous. 
And although all are not calculated to make so splendid a dis- 
])lay as those mentioned above, still they add much additional 
variety, flower much more freely, and continue much longer in 
blossom, than if kept in pots in the houses; while their removal 
gives more room in the greenhouse, for hard wooded plants 
necessarily left there, as well as tor the introduction of Balsams, 
Ike. as they come into flower. Those about to be recommended 
for planting out, being chiefly of easy propagation, cuttings of 
their young wood may be readily struck in the latter end of 
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