It is not uncommon to read that the pear is a very unreliable tree to plant in the West. It always seemed to us, that this representation was started by some uncomfortable Jeremiah, and, once started, has been repeated in spite of so much evidence to the contrary. At the July meeting of the Montgomery County, Ohio, Horticultural Society, Mr. Hoover spoke of a pear orchard containing ten or twelve hundred trees, that had come under his observation, and which had been planted some twenty-five years; and, although it had been greatly neglected, many of the trees were still in excellent condition.