Mr. William Parry writes: " I saw in the Gardeners' Monthly a notice that, 'At the recent exhibition in Philadelphia, two, three and four year old trees were exhibited, on which had grown nearly a half bushel of fruit. Nine out of every ten pears should have been taken off in infancy". Then the fruit would have been delicious.' As the trees referred to were dug from nursery rows and exhibited by me, I take this occasion to state that there were others in the same rows which matured as many as seventy-five large, handsome pears, a few specimens of which I submit for testing, judgment and report. I think the Kieffer is proving to be a great success - fully sustaining all that has been said in its favor and disproving what has been said against it. Hundreds of bushels are being sent to market this fall, and sell readily at 50 to 75 cents per half peck, and as high as $5.00 per bushel in larger quantities."

[These specimens fully confirm the remark we made. They were very good, jucy, wholesome-eating pears, fully as good as the great majority of kinds which have first-class certificates, and we will repeat, that if these trees had their over-plus thinned in infancy, as all good cultivators do who desire fruit of extra quality, there is every reason to believe that they would have been excellent. That trees over-loaded as these were should produce such large, showy and very good fruit as these are, is quite sufficient to stamp the variety as one of the very best. - Ed. G. M.]