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 dark black orbs " of his fair angel, than the  For four more varieties,
making a dozen
 genuine lover of good fruit may dwell on the  arket
 dark black orbs hanging in the wildest luxu-       pears, the committee
would add four
 riance from these extremely healthy but sun- autumn pears, numbered as they
come into
 forsaken vines.atin                                viz
   When your gooseberry leaves fall off by       g,
mildew, the grape leaves by hail, or the pear  1. Buffum. P.
leaves by blight, do you have gooseberries,  2. Fulton. P.
grapes or pears? We need scarcely answer;
and yet the same persons, who know they do   8. Beurre Bose. P.
not get good fruit under these misfortunes, by  4. Marie Louise. P.
their very systems of pruning, "which lets in  -
the sun and air," are really working to the  The committee could not
undertake to re-
same unsatisfactory end.                    port in regard to the soil and
cultivation ape-
   " Take care of the leaves and the fruits will cially a
take care of themselves." Mr. Buist clearly        dapted to each variety
of the fruits
showed this in an article he contributed to an above recommended. They would,
however,
early volume of the f/ardeer's Jfonthly. He state, in a general way, the
conditions which
set a novice to shorten in some shoots in his
vinery, and before he saw him again, he had they consider essential to the
successful culti-
a few vines nearly stripped of their foliage. vation of nearly all pears.
These are:
These vines had badly colored grapes. They
never had before, nor had the rest of the     1. High cultivation; especially
of certain
grapes from the point where the defoliating varieties, as the Seckel, &c.
operation ceased.
  "Take care of the leaves and the fruits will  2. Very deep tillage.
take 'ar   le teverla  thes." e poages, a fewr.  Underdraining, wherever
the subsoil is
acute gardeners were well aware of the im- clay, hardpan or retentive in
its character.
portance of the maxim. If they wanted grapes  4 Thi
to color "very particularly" well, they shaded  .  nnn   out of
the fruit wherever there
the vinery a week before 4the fruit ripened; is a tendency to overbearing.
" for," said they, " too strong a sunlight has a  6 Protection
from the wind. This is very
tendency to ripen leaves, and as soon as they
ripen they are no longer of any service to the important. The protectioa
may be a high wall
fruit. The longer we keep our leaves healthy or board fence, or belt of evergreen
trees,
the darker and better the fruit."-Gardescr' which, where the room can
be afforded, is,

                      _onwy.  .0.           perhaps, the best of all, being
at once useful
Twelve BDt Varleti f Pam fr    arket Culti- and ornamental.

  At a meeting of the Worcester (Mass.) Hor-  [All of which we fully endorse.-COR.
ED.]
ticultural Society a committee appointed to  At the same uieeting it was
stated that a
prepare a list of eight varieties of the pear, tree of the Buffuui, belonging
to Mr. Edward
such as they themselves would recommend a. Earle, has produced fruit to the
average value
best for market cultivation, stating whether of $23 per annum for the last
ten years.
on pear or quince, and the soil adapted to each        - -
variety, unanimously agreed to recommend     BEGGING SENDS.-HoW many of our
readers
the following eight pears, which are number- are in the habit of annually
begging or buy.
ed in the order of their ripening, P. meaning ing all their garden seeds?
 We know of
pear roots, Q. quince roots:               some; and as human nature is about
the same
  1. Rostiezer. P.                         in all localities, it is presumed
that the num.
  2. Bartlett. P.                          ber of those who prefer to beg
rather than
  8.. Flemish Beauty. P.                   take a little trouble on their
own behalf, is
  4. Paradise d'Automne. P.                not so small as it ought to be.
Come, neigh.
  6. Louise Bonne de Jersey. Q.           bor Shiftless, and Mrs. Slack,
have a little
  6. Seckel. P.                            more ambition, and never henceforth
be guilty
  7. Duchesse. (t.of planting seeds which you ought to have
  8. Beaurre d'Anjou. P. or Q.             produced and saved for yourselves.



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