I have been much surprised at several depreciatory notices in relation to. this fruit, and especially at the statement of the President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society - that it has been over-rated, and that he had never tasted a good specimen of it To this, it might be sufficient to oppose the opinion of his neighbor, Robert Manning, whose reputation as a pomologist, and especially as a cultivator of the Pear, is world-wide. He places it in the front rank of autumn Pears. From five successive years' opportunity of testing it, I most fully coincide with his opinion. The tree is a remarkably free grower, and one of the moat prolific that I know of, bearing fully every year of large, fine fruit When gathered early, before it begins to change its color, - say about ten days before it would ripen on the tree, - it is invariably of the most delicious character, excelling, in its exquisite flavor, every other Pear of its season. I am not alone in this opinion, but am sustained in it by that of all, in this vicinity, who have had ah opportunity of eating it when properly grown and ripened.

I may add, that on some soils, if left to hang till the color changes, it becomes poor, and, in that state, would warrant the objections that have been made to it I consider it one of the moat valuable of all Pears for general culture. E. - Worcester, Mass.