Our favorite mulch for the pear - both standard and on quince - is the coarsest unfermented manure the stable and yard can furnish, and applied, invariably, in the fall of the year, that the tender rootlets may be preserved from the injurious influences of the extreme and sudden vicissitudes of temperature through the winter, at the same time that the soluble parts of the manure, dissolved by the winter rains, may be carried to the rootlets that have penetrated deepest in the soil.

The same manure, applied in the spring, enriches simply the surface rootlets, while the greater portion is dissipated under the evaporation, which is so actively carried on during the spring and summer months.

When liberally used, the undecomposed portion remaining in the spring acts the part of a simple mulch, protecting the surface soil around the tree from the action of the summer's sun. So much importance do I attach to this, that these circles are made the receptacles for all the waste vegetable matter that can be collected on the farm. It may possibly be owing to the protection thus given that I have never seen a pear-blight in the orchard.

A part of my trees received last spring, for the first time, a dressing of leather parings from the leather manufactory, with the operation of which I have been much pleased. The supposed influence of the mulch in securing an increased size of the fruit was first suggested by an experiment with some peach-trees that occupied a neglected portion of the orchard, which was suffered to be overgrown with weeds. When pulled, they were deposited around the trees, in their green state, in such masses as to secure rapid decomposition, and thus preserved in a state of moisture the surface of the soil, while all around, the earth was parched with drought. The fruit (Crawford's late) attained to one-third greater size than ever before grown, and they reached their muturity so much later than ordinary, as to give me a supply much longer than usual, and a quantity for the market when there was no other in competition with it.

The physiological explanation of the fact is found in the preservation of the requisite moisture for the tree to elaborate the sap necessary for the continued vigor of the foliage, and perfect development of the fruit. Having said thus much of the treatment, let us turn to the character of the fruit; and should my description of their qualities seem to some too highly colored, and to others to be contradicted by their experience, I beg such to remember that very much must be credited to the character of the soil, it being a gravelly loam, overlaying an absorbing subsoil in which the pear delights, inasmuch as it rarely suffers from drought, or from excessive moisture.

The uniformly high flavor of all the smaller fruits, particularly the strawberry, which seems indigenous to this soil, has convinced me that some of the qualities of the pear, particularly the flavor and aroma, depend more upon the physical constitution of the soil than we have been wont to think.

If this is not so, the fact to me is inexplicable, that not a solitary pear accredited good has failed, on my grounds, to sustain that character.

Dearborn's seedling, predicted by some as but a forerunner of better ones, has proved of excellent flavor as well as a pear of great beauty; its waxen surface of clear yellow, beautifully broken by the minute specks dotted over it, endear it to the amateur, and commend it to the casual observer. When ripened in the house, it has been so uniformly good, fine-grained, juicy, melting, and of delicious flavor, that I cannot understand how the Dearborn can sustain any other character. It bears uniformly large crops, and ripens through a long period - in New Jersey, the finest of all the early pears.

Oswego Buerre has fully sustained its reputation as a brisk, rich, and excellent flavored pear, not unlike the Doyenne in its buttery, melting character - so peculiar has been its flavor as to remind one of the aroma of the Rose Geranium. It comes early into bearing, but, I fear, its size, in New Jersey, will be rather below medium.

Louise Bonne de Jersey, always a good mid-autumn pear; to most, gratefully subacid, very juicy and rich.

Bartlett - a Bartlett still. This season, this universal favorite was so abundant as to depreciate materially its market value, and faintly shadow forth that "good time coming," predicted by our friend, "B., of New Jersey," when good pears shall be so abundant as to bring them within the reach and enjoyment of every man.