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regular and abundant crops of fair fiine fruit in our own garden, as 
any other sort we cultivate. 
“ Whole orchards of the Doyenne (or Virgalieu) are in the finest and 
most productive state of bearing in the interior of this State, and num¬ 
berless instances in the Western States; and any one may see, in 
September, grown in the apparently cold and clayey soil near the town 
of Hudson, on the North River, specimens of this ‘ Outcast,’ 
weighing three-fourths of'a pound, and of a golden fairness and beauty 
of appearance and lusciousness of flavour worthy of the garden of the 
Hesperides,—certainly we are confident never surpassed in the lustiest 
youth of the variety in France. The same is true of all the other sorts 
when propagated in a healthy manner, and grown in the suitable soil 
and climate. Everywhere away from the sea air, and in strong, balmy 
soil, the fruit is beautiful and good. The largest and finest crops of 
Pears regularly produced in our own gardens are by a Brown Beurre 
tree, only too luxuriant and vigorous. Of the Golden Pippin Apple, 
we Tan point out trees in the valley of the Hudson, productive of the 
fairest and finest fruit, and the St. Germain Pears grown by a neighbour 
here, without the least extra care, are so excellent, that he may fairly 
set them against any one of the newer varieties of winter fruits. 
“ On the other hand we candidly admit that there has been for some 
time a failure of many sorts of Pear and Apple in certain parts of the 
country. All along the sea coast, where the climate is rude, and the 
soil rather sandy, as upon Long Island, in new Jersey, near Hartford, 
and in places around Boston, many sorts of Pears that once flourished 
well are now feeble, and the fruit is often blighted. This is owing 
plainly to two causes: First, to the lightness of the soil, which in this 
climate, under our hot sun, lays the foundation of more than half the 
diseases of fruit trees, because, after a few years, the necessary suste¬ 
nance is exhausted by the roots of a bearing tree, and every one knows 
how rarely it is re-supplied in this country. We can from our own 
observations on the effects of soil take a mah and mark the sandy 
district on the whole sea-board, where certain sorts of Pears no longer 
bear good fruit; while within a few’^ miles, on strong deep loams, the 
fruit is fair and beautiful—the trees healthy and luxuriant. In the 
second place, it arises from the constant propagation of the same stock ; 
a stock becoming every year more and more enfeebled in those localities 
by the unfavourable soil and climate. No care is taken to select grafts 
from trees in healthy districts, and this feeble habit is thus perpetuated 
in the young grafted trees until it becomes so constitutional that, in 
many cases, trees sent from the sea-board into the interior wdll carry 
the degenerate habit with them, and are oPen many years in regaining 
their normal state of health. To add force to this view, we will add, 
that-we have had the satisfaction, lately, of seeing trees of the 
condemned varieties taken from healthy interior districts to the sea¬ 
board, w^here they have already borne fruit as fair and unblemished as 
ever ; thus proving that the variety w^as not enfeebled, but only so much 
of it as had been constantly propagated in a soil and climate naturally 
rather unfavourable to it, while in favourable nositions it maintained 
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all its original vigour. 
