The Editor has made a misstatement as to the Williams who introduced the Bartlett, or as it is in England, known as the Williams' Bonchretien. Mr. Hovey kindly corrects the error in the following note to the Rural New Yorker :

"It was originally described in the Transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1816 (Vol. II.) with a colored plate, and so far as any information could be obtained at that time, ' it sprang up from seed in the garden of Mr. Wheeler, a schoolmaster at Aldermaston, in Berkshire, previously to 1770, as it was then a very young plant.'

" It was disseminated by Mr. Richard Williams, a nurseryman of Turnham Green, from whom came its name of Williams's Bonchretien. It was introduced into Boston in 1799 or 1800, into the grounds belonging subsequently to E. Bartlett, then Roxbury, and was known as the Bartlett Pear, supposed to be a new variety until the late R. Manning, of Salem, detected that the Bartlett was a synonym; but it was so extensively cultivated as the Bartlett that it was impossible to restore its original name".