MTTJLE MUSCAT, 
E have met with so many Muscat impostors — 
Pears assuming the appearance of the Little 
Muscat, without one of its valuable qualities, 
excepting that of early ripening, that it may, 
perhaps, be difficult to obtain the tine variety. 
It is, however, we believe, quite certain, that 
if the true variety, as a dessert Pear, are greatly 
he soil on which it is grown. Our specimens 
supplied to us by Mr. Mayfield, of Hagley, where 
n a light and rather shallow soil, resting on a 
