I observe in the "Chapter on Pears," which appeared in your July number, an error caused by your correspondent's supposing that the date affixed to Doyenne d'Alenfon was its "teaton" of ripening, when, in fact, in preparing that description, I intended it simply to mark the time when it woe teeted, The description was taken from a specimen which had been exhibited at the various fairs of 1852* and which had afterwards matured prematurely in the office of the Syracuse* Nurseries. Being absent when the chapter referred to was made up, an opportunity was not given me to correct the error* as I was able to do conclusively, having then (March,) several unripened specimens in my possession. This correction would, of course, have spared you the necessity of pronouncing the Doyenne d'Alencon cultivated at the Syracuse nurseries to be "untrue," saved them from the injury of an unjust sentence, and your correspondent from the consciousness of having called it forth. The same precisely may be said in relation to the description of Paste Tardive, a fruit well known to be very late, and deemed at the Syracuse Nnrseries so indifferent that they have not room enough to cultivate it J. C HancHERT. - Syra.

Pears #1

I write you to correct an error or two in the article published in the July number of the Horticulturist, as well as to offer a few amendments.

Signoret should be Sigarel. . Belle de Brusselle*, not identified, is the Belle et Bonne.

Honenshenk. you say a variety of opinions exist as regards this Pear. "We are aware of it, and attribute it to the fact that there are two varieties, each grown by Mr. Schenk. Mr. Spangles, of Pennsylvania, writes us most positively on this point One he calls, and it is known, he says, as "Schenk'f August? which is the pear described as not so good, while the "Hosenshenk" he says has all the good quffities attributed to it, and is in his opinion the best Pear of its season. We have both growing side by side. There is a difference in the wood and growth; the poorer one, SehenK's August, being the best grower. We feel confident that the correct Pear will be very desirable.

Pears #2

We have received the following note from Messrs. Thorp, Smith, Han-chett, & Co., together with a couple of very large and beautiful specimens of the Shenk's, or Schenck Pear, some account of which we gave in our last volume, pages 458 and 459:

"We send you by Express, this morning, (Aug. 11,) two specimens of the HoSenehenk. We wish we could send more, but our number is too limited. We think that after tasting them you will have but one opinion in regard to its value, and that that opinion must nearly approximate to, if it does not quite keep pace with, our friend Garber's in his note to us accompanying the Pear. He says: "In the Horticulturist for July, you remark that you 'look upon it as the best Pear of its season, all things considered.' In this opinion all lovers of the Pear here, where it is known, will ooinoide. The editor, in his note, says, 'there is a variety of opinions among those who know it best, This is not the fact I have never heard any person dissent from placing it as the best Pear of its season, except Dr. ESHLEMAN, of Downington, Pa.; and he, I think, from his own admission, had not tasted a true specimen in roll perfection." He says, also, that the fruit is somewhat knotty, which we can corroborate fully, as compared with the specimens we received last year.

We hope they will arrive in good order, and we shall be pleased to have your opinion of them".

The specimens referred to were large, three inches each way; roundish; greenish-yellow, the sunny side marbled with light red; the flesh a little coarse, but melting, very juicy and sprightly; but in every piece we tasted, there was one or more crude hard particles about as large as peas. But for this defect, which we presume was accidental, we should pronounce these specimens first rate. Dr. Eshleman has been referred to in the foregoing note. We have a recent letter from Mr. E, in which he says, "In most parts of Lancaster county it is a very good Pear, but here (Downington, Chester Co., Pa.,) after its fifth fruiting it must be discarded. The Ott and Tyson are both in perfection, and a tree of either would be worth a plantation of Shenks" We have some doubts of its being as fine in other parts of the country as in Lancaster county, but it is well worthy of trial. We hope it will soon be tested in our State. The specimens so far noticed have been grown in its native locality.

Mr. Francis Dana, of Roxbury, Mass., has been very successful in raising seedling Pears. Mr. HovEY says that three or four of them are among the best of our American Pears, and one in particular surpasses even the Seckel. This is enough to excite the curiosity of Pear-growers.

Pears #3

We are indebted to Chas. Downing, Esq., for fine specimens of the Ananas d'Ete and Shenk Pears, August 30. The latter are just ripe, and are tery good, but in every one we have seen there are knots and cracks. Mr. Downing's specimens were raised on the Quince, and were as large and fine as any we have seen from Pennsylvania, and of better quality. Specimens grown in our own grounds have not been either so large, fair, or good, as those from Newburgh. Mr. Downing thinks it will not prove worthy of general or extensive culture. The Ananas d'Ete is a very fine fruit.