Stone & Wellington, Toronto, Canada, write : " We mail you to-day a sample of a new seedling pear, which we call 'Ritson.' The original tree is over 65 years of age, and still bears large crops of fine fruit. While other varieties have been planted and grown in the same field, and after a few years have yielded to blight or some other cause, this tree has never been affected in any way, either by severe weather or disease of any kind. We believe we have in this pear an ironclad variety of merit. The fruit, as you will see, is of very good quality, and as the tree is an abundant yearly cropper, and also very hardy, we believe that it will be an acquisition to our list of pear trees. Will you kindly give us your opinion? The original tree stands at Oshawa, Ontario, 33 miles east of this city".

[This is a small pear, about four inches in length, and truly pyriform. Its chief merits, no doubt, lie in the hardiness and other characteristics related to the high Northern latitude, and of which we cannot judge from a single specimen of the fruit. This, on the 10th of October, was in good eating condition, and the expression of our correspondent, "very good," does full justice to its eating qualities. - Ed. G. M].