The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-05-21

HovEY's MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE, &C., for
May is received This number is enriched by one of
those articles by the editor giving original descriptions
and drawings OF new and choice varieties OF fruits,
which have added much the value Of the Magazine,
and given character, that respect, which has been
attained by other publication in the country The
editor has made the varieties of fruit special study
and has accumulated mass of knowledge in atien
thereto, unequaled perhaps by any other person in the
country. With thousand or fifteen hundred bearing
pear trees his grounds embracing perhaps six or
hundred varieties; with regular attendance on
all the exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society and with the benefit OF travel and personal ex>
animation of The grounds trees, and fruits Of the best
cutvators in Europe and this country added TO exten>
sve correspondence, his qualifications for tits service
of the undouhted character and we according
y find his descriptions clear, accurate, and explicit
just what is wanted identify fruit, with add
tional Information of general CHARACTER, is Interests
ing and useful.
The question is frequently asked; "of what is it,
to cultivate many kinds We answer tina. ii yet res
mains TO be proved which are The best. Some rank
among the best in situation, but comparatively
poor in another. Pomol gy, with u.s. is but in its nfa
cy, aud it will always be progress Varieties but lii
tie known valued, now, may prove better than those
highly esteemed. Look the change that has
taken place the last twenty FIVE years. All the lead.
ing varieties of apples, pears and plums, culuvat>
ed, with few exceptions have been introduced within
that time. The Greenng and Roxbury Russell apples,
and the JargonelIe and ST. Mcha pear are almost the
only varieties that remain to remind OF tue oden
time, and the vino should of the old Eng.
llsh Red Cheek Orange, aud Bell pears, and various
knds of apples that formerly in vogue, would be
sure have the fruit all himse -u obody else would
touch i-at least if they could obtain such fruit the
Bartlett, Seckel, Beurre Bose, Belle Lucrative, ST.
Ghlslan aud other fine varieties OF more modern days
We make the following extract llom this number which
comes directly 10 the point:
Much has been said of late about reducing the
great number Of pears in cultivation, aud ALSO OF
the prevailing mania, especially among the Bos-
ton pear cultivators, of adding every new sort to
the already greatly extended list Of varieties
which fill our catalogues. No experienced pom.
ologst will pretend to doubt that there are many
kinds which may be judiciously discarded from
cultivation, but to talk OF reducing the number
to twenty or thirty Or. to say that there is not
more than that number OF really good pears, is
perfectly absurd
Equally absurd is the attempt to make some
cultvators believe that we have already good
pears enough and that 1t is little else than folly
to run after all the varieties which are emu
meraed in foreign catalogues We would not
waste time and room in arguing this question
with those who have made such assertions-
Acting under such impressions, our collections
would soon be deficient in some OF the choicest
kinds which have been produced. AS an evil
dence of this, we need only remark that the
Doyenne Boussock, recently described and fig
ured by US, and the Excellenlissima, which we
now have under notice, are both pears which
had no noted reputation abroad, and indeed had
never been mentioned in any genealogical work,
to our knowledge, until Mr.. Kenrick briefly de-
.scribed them. They have, however, proved to
be two very remarkable varieties which will be-
come universally cultivated.