Size, medium; form, acute pyriform; color, handsome russet; flavor, pleasant sub-acid, aromatic; quality, very good. A very prolific hardy tree, bearing every year.

Note

The prospect for fruit is very unpropitious in this region. All of the flower-buds of the peach and Cherry are destroyed, and many varieties of the Pear are fatally injured. Among the latter, I find the Lawrence and Sheldon buds have suffered badly; but the trees are sound. The fluctuations of the mercury have been very remarkable during the winter. On the eighth of February the weather was colder than it had been for twenty-nine years, the glass marking 23 degrees below zero. Then came the warm day on the third of March, with the thermometer, at noon, at 80 deg.; at evening at 65 deg.; then in five days after, on the 8th, it registered only four degrees above zero. The failure of our fruit crop will be attributed to these extreme vacillations. I do not think so, but apprehend the damage was done on the morning of Oct. 1, 1860, at which time our Grape crop was destroyed, and when apples froze on the trees so as to split open. Perhaps I can not adduce a better proof of this opinion than the fact that our Chinese Azaleas lost all their flower-buds at this time: a circumstance which never occurred before.

Among the varieties of Pears which seem to have withstood this severe trial best, I find the Beurre d'Anjou, Urbaniste, Louise Bonne de Jersey, and some other of the standard kinds.

[We are rich in old friends this month. It is so long since Mr. Wilder has spoken, that we had almost begun to fear that his interest in horticulture was on the wane; but we find he writes with all his old enthusiasm. We thank him for the opportunity of laying before our readers the results of his experience with some of the more recent pears. We regret to hear of the loss of your fruit-beds; we have the same sad news from many different quarters. In some places, we know, from examination, that the mischief was done early in the season, and this will probably be found to have been the case generally, which will accord with your views. The destruction of fruit was caused, we think, not so much by fluctuations in the winter as by the imperfect ripening of the buds, the result of the excessive bearing of the trees during last season. Heavy crops, followed by early cold and wet weather, prevented the fruit-beds from ripening, and made them an easy prey to the first extreme change of temperature. How does that accord with your philosophy? - Ed].