WIE’TEK ITEILIS 
ERY justly has it been stated by Mr. Tbomp- 
superintendent of the frait department in 
the London Horticultural Society's Garden, 
that “Amongst the numerous varieties of Pears, 
accounted first-rate, by the generality of connoisseurs, there 
are hut few with regard to the quality of which some do not 
express a different opinion. But there appears to he only one 
opinion respecting the Winter Nelis ; for, however frequently 
its qualites may have been the subject of remark, the con- 
clusions of all that I have heard, have been invariably to the 
same effect ; that of attributing a superior degree of excellence 
