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depfh, leaving the quince rootJi only in the ground, and 
auer a few years they have ceased to bear. But sonie 
have both planted and cultivated properly , and these have 
.prcnted, and will continue to profit largely by Pear cul- 
ture Why is it that the whole Agricultural and Horticul- 
tural community are not alive to these facts '? Simply be- 
cause not one in one hundred sttbscribe to an Agricultur- 
at or Horticultinral paper; and among those who do, 
many from mistaken econornyselect such as devote two- 
thirds of tneir columns lo .ba'‘4cr(]Mf.h^ not conrsected with 
the legitimate u.ses of an agricultural paper. It is either 
true or false, that choice fruit-cuiture, properly pursued, 
will pay large ; it is also true that badly pursued, like any 
■other business badly pursued, it will break its votary. 
We say, and our saying; accords with our pra.ctice. that it 
will pay largely, that it does pay us largely, and our past 
articles have shown how it. may be done. Let our read- 
•ers be up and doing ; there is po secret about it, but 
■simple truths alone, such as any intelligent man may follow. 
Should we not be asliamed at fmdini': foreign fruits im- 
ported into our large seaports and .sold at such prices as 
if raised here, would pay twenty times or more the pvufn 
per acre that can be realized by raising any of our great 
■staples 1 
Mach can yet probably be done to improve fruit-cul- 
ture beyond the point already attained. We saw two 
Pears at the Farmers’ Club of the American Institute last 
month, which far surpassed anything of the kind before 
exhioiied. They were grown in Cedifurnia. and are more 
than double the size of the same kinds grown here. They 
would have sold fur $l each from any Broadway window. 
Why should the enquiring mind despair of duplicating 
•such gro'vvihs here 1 Have not many doubled their own 
crops by superior cultivation 1 And why not the size of 
their Pears I The one was presented by the Kev. Ely 
Corwin, of San Jose, California, recording Secretary ol' 
the State Agricultural Society, of a species palled the 
^Tound Pear,”giown by E. L .Beard, E-q , of San Jose 
Mission, weighing 25 pounds ; girth 145 inches; circurn- 
T-fence, longitudinally, 21 g indies. 
Mr. Wheeler, of Sacramento, sent also a Pear — dimen- 
sions, 15i by HI inches; weiglu, 335 ounces — exhibiie,; 
by H. Hill Wheeler, Esq., of Hillard Terrace, New York. 
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Mr. Blot, a French gardener, near New York, states 
that he has a garden at Harlem where he can grow eighty 
to one hundred quart.s a day of mushrooms upon an acre. 
The beds are made at the bottom of trenches three feet deep 
rounded up fifteen inches high, the trenches being covered 
over with boards A. bed will last five or six months with- 
out renewing. The plants come naturallyTrom decompos- 
ing hor.se manure, but he ha.stens the growtlt by planting 
the spa\yn or seed of the mushroom, which is to be found 
in old beds of horse manure, in a suitable state of deconi- 
positio.n. The plants continue growing in the trenches 
summer and winter, and are gathered daily as they come 
to perfection, and sold to restaurants and hotels at about 
375 cents a quart. The supply is very much belrind the 
demand, and in consequence large quantities areinported 
in a preserved state. Mr Blot states that there is nothing 
in the climate to prevent grovvingin New York all that the 
city could consume. The following calculation will show 
the profit of growi-ng mushrooms : 
To cultivate an acre, two men and two horses would be 
required, Expenses of horses, say 400 
The labor of two men, say 730 
Beni of an acre of vacant city lots 400 
Total S 1,530 
A sale of SO quarts a day at 30 cents will produce 
ip2S 80 per day, or SI0,512 per annum This would 
give S8,0S2 as the net profit of one acre of the many va- 
cant ones lying idle in and about this city, and we are as- 
sured that it would take many acres to supply the demand 
at the price stated. 
Pe-ici] Worms. — Boiling water, says the HorlicuLtural- 
ist, is a most excellent application in the spring of the 
year, for diseased peach trees, and is a certain remedy 
for the peach worm. A correspondent very effectually 
excluded the peach worm by digging a trench around the 
foot of liie trunk, forming a cavity a foot in width and 
four inches deep, and then pouring into this basin a very 
thick whitewash made of fresh lime, and suffered to stand 
one day before applying. 
[Dr. J. M. WabD; of Newark, N. J , al,?o e.xhibited, last 
fall, the .M/goM Pear ever raised thi,? side of C.tlifornia It 
was of the Duchesse h’ AnpooJcinc varieiy, grovrii on a i 
■d war! tree, and weiglied, when picked, between .34 and j 
ounces ! Ai! the Norihern and European varieties of 
the Pear are much improved in .site and ni/ali/j/ wiien 
properly pl.mted and cultivated in the South. We are 
happy to state that Pear culture is on the iii'-rease among 
u.s, and trust that our readers will fnliy avail themselves ol 
the undoubted advantaims ot nur cliniaie — Eds] 
Farm G.iRDEXS. — Mr. R., at a late meeting of tiie Farm- 
■ers’ Clul.., advocated planting everything in long rows, 
so that nearly all die labor of cultivation can be done by | 
the horse hoe. and the persons who cannot find lime for 
spade cultivation will not neglect, as tliey now do, tliis 
valuable aid to family^ economy and lieaith, the farm gar- 
den. What IS most needed now is, for us to endeavor, 
WINTEii PEARt? IN NEW JERSEY. 
Ax experienced pomologieal friend, writing from Eliza- 
bethtown, N. J. under date of December 17, .says; 
‘•Fruit is scarce wiih us this season. Apples are worth 
ifo perbai-rel, and very mxlinary at titat. Pears are now 
very scarce, and con'miand fabulous prices — 25 to .50 cts 
each ' J have, on hand in good condition the following 
varieties; — Easter Beiirre, Glout Morceaii, Doyenne d’ 
Alencon, Btinre d’ yG'embei'g aiid Jaminette I'ln se are 
the principle kinds to he had at present for table u^e; also 
Winter Nelis, vvhicli is not yet quite rj])e with me, al- 
though seMom kee[)ing so late. Beiin e d’ Anjou, Beurre 
Diel, Columbia, Vicar of Winkfield, and Beurre Langelier 
are now nearly all gone. I’he latter is still in good con- 
and will, I tliink prove one of our best early win- 
ter Pears: size large and (iiir ; I think quite equal to 
' ' lout Mor.’c.au. Beurre Diel has been extra fnie and 
Y'icar of Winkfield has been what. I iiever had it before: 
p/erfectly meUiiig and i)!'good quality. W. R, 
[In tlie free of such facts us are above stated, is it neces- 
l>y constant reiteration of the subiect, to induce farmers to 
culUvate and eat more garden vegetables. We must keep 
talking of what it is best to raise, and how to plant and 
■sew, and tend and make produce in the easiest manner, 
sary for us to urge upon those of c.ur readers who liave 
easy access to our Atlantic seaports the ccrloinly of prof I 
from Fruit Growing'? The Atlantic slope of the Southern 
States, ought to be the Orchard of the world. — E ds.} 
