We notice in the Gardener's Year Book, published in London, England, and edited by Robert Hogg, Esq., the pomological director of the Royal Horticultural Society, descriptions of four new varieties of pears that originated with a Rev. Mr. Huyshe, and the stock of which has been by him presented to the Royal Horticultural Society Of London. Three of these varieties have been produced from pips of the Marie Louise hybridized with Gansell's Bergamot, as follows:

Huyshe's Victoria

Fruit of medium size; form, similar to Beurre d'Aremberg; yellowish ground, with veins of cinnamon russet; flesh, yellowish, juicy, rich, sugary, and vinous; season, December.

Huyshe's Prince Of Wales

Fruit, large; lemon-yellow ground, veined with cinnamon-colored russet; flesh, yellow, fine-grained, very juicy, rich flavored.

Huyshe's Princess Of Wales

Fruit, medium size, varying in form; skin, a smooth lemon-yellow ground color, sprinkled with patches, veins, and dots of pale cinnamon-colored russet; flesh, deep yellow, melting, high flavored, rich, and juicy; November. The fourth variety is said to have been produced from a seed of Beurre d'Aremberg fertilized by Passe Colinar. It is named

Huyshe's Prince Consort

Fruit, large, oblong, obovate, pyriform; skin, grass green, much covered with russet, exposing the green ground only in mottles; flesh, yellowish, coarse-grained, very juicy, melting, not buttery, with a mellow vanilla flavor, highly agreeable; early winter. In the account given, Mr. Huyshe states that in growing seedling pears, he is now careful to sow only the round pips, not those that are flat-sided.

Gooseberries and Currants should be planted without delay, if not already done. Their pruning should also be at once performed; cut out all feeble, weakly shoots, and head back the strong ones one third to one half of last season's growth.

All borders or beds not yet cleaned o old haulm or other refuse should be a4 once attended to, and the ground around all perennials, etc., manured and lightly dug or forked over. It would have been better had this work been done last fall, but now it should not be delayed a day.

New Pears #1

A writer in The Gardener's Chronicle enumerates all the varieties of pears raised in England. The list numbers fifty-two, of which twenty-nine are first-rate, eighteen second-rate, and five third-rate; also twenty-five varieties that have been raised in Scotland, all second-rate, and 120 varieties raised on the continent, since 1850, all first-rate. Besides the above, about fifty other new varieties have been imported since 1869, so that during the last decade, above one hundred new kinds have been added to our collections. The same writer also states that "although I am ashamed, I am constrained to say that I have found the nomenclature of fruit in England very much behind either America (from which I have 150 sorts of pear) or the continental nations from which I have imported nearly 1,200 kinds - very few of which belie their names".

Pears #1

We had hoped to have got rid of the subject of " Pears on the Quince," leaving them to the test of time, but a cogent reply of Dr. Ward to Mr. Field's article in last number, will require insertion at our hands, and, if we possibly can find room, shall appear next month.

The Cold of January has been even more severe than during the previous winter, and has, we fear, again done injury to fruit and other trees. The snow, however, proved a protection to wheat, and, to some extent, to plants and even trees. The cold "cycle" which has been upon us, it may be hoped, has reached its maximum. In this region, thermometers exhibited various degrees of cold from 20° below zero to 60 at the same time, and at not greater distances than a mile or two apart, proving that there are eddies of cold air not entirely influenced by elevation. It is believed, the intensity of cold has been as great as any of the same duration during the settlement of the country. Skaters have had their amusement at New Orleans, and in much of the southern country there has been great Buffering, while, at the north and northwest, it has been intolerable; thermometers at 40º below zero are so often reported as not to be chronicable, and we are obliged to leave that matter to some accurate meteorologists.

Pears #1

Attend -early to pinching out the points from rampant growing shoots. No operation on trees is practically of more importance than this; it effects a saving of time, economizes manure, and increases the crop; indirectly, it is true, but none the less in fact. There cannot be a more pleasing occupation, for the amateur in fruits, than attending to a collection of dwarf pear-trees. Having in his eye the symmetrical proportions of a pyramidal-formed tree clothed with foliage from the ground upwards, he will now be bending down strong shoots and elevating weak ones, to equalize their conditions; and, as growth advances, those shoots likely to take a lead, and disarrange the equality of growth, will have their tops pinched out.