"It is useless to charge failures to climate, for there is no climate in the world superior to ours for growing the pear. To this some of the best Pomologists in the world who had visited this country, would agree. No other fruit can be grown as profitably as the pear, and none is as certain.

The present season we have neither peaches nor apples in Western New York, but our pear crop is fair, as it always is. Much is said about a proper soil for the pear. Any soil that will grow good wheat and corn, will grow the pear. It must, however, be drained for the pear, as it should be for the other crops-named. There is no mystery about pear culture - it only requires the exercise of a little common sense.

"He knew of no case of failure where persons had given to the subject ordinary infornration, intellect, and care".

Who can doubt the disinterestedness of the source of such expounded law, when laid down by the "Empire" nurseryman of Western New York? Has he or has he not grown and distributed more Dwarf trees; at this moment has he a larger unsold stock on hand than any half score of nurseries put together; and is he a partner in more or less nurseries extending from Rochester to the Mississippi? are questions to be looked after. Hide your diminished heads, you neophytes, who have planted, in all your innocent enthusiasm, your dwarfs by the score, hundreds, or. thousands, "on soil that will grow good wheat and corn," and with all your pains-taking, book reading, and ingenuity, seen them dwindling, blighting, and dying year after year, until scarcely one is left to tell the sorrowful story of its fellows; while apple, quince, peach, cherry, plum, and currant, are rejoicing in growth and fruitfulness all around them I What admirable proof is here given by facts and figures, of the abundance of the pear crop in Western New York in the blessed year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, when the apple crop, for the only season within twenty years' recollection, has been an almost total failure.

Will this speaker inform us what has been the current price of Virgalieu, and other "best" pears in the Rochester market during the past bearing autumn; and at what price he will contract to furnish us half a dozen barrels of "Easter Buerres" on this first day of February?

But, enough of this abortive attempt to reestablish by bold assertion the Dwarf pear throughout the country as a successful and profitable orchard, or even garden fruit. As to the general action of the Pomological Society, it has my best wishes in finally accomplishing its legitimate objects; but when its proceedings are permitted to go out to the public as an advertising sheet for the benefit of dwarf pear tree propagators, and it sacrifices truth to individual interest, it will be in danger of taking its place among other charlatanries of the day. Its ill success in establishing any thing like systematic rule for pear growing lies only in the constitutional uncertainty of the tree itself, when on its own stock, and the unnatural application of it upon the quince - the strong, vigorous wood of one, upon that of the small, shrubby fibre of the other. It is similar to working the pear on, the thorn - years ago condemned by everybody, excepting for the merest temporary purposes - and only preferable because the quince will strike, and take root more readily than the thorn. There is one advantage, indeed, in substituting the thorn for the quince; it is not subject to the attacks of the borer, to which the quince is always liable.

We know hundreds of trees, on their own natural stocks, in different and wide-spread localities, growing on undrained, adhesive clays, generous loams, or leachy grounds, two feet and upwards in diameter, fifty to two hundred years old, stalwart as oaks, bearing twenty to fifty bushels of seedling pears nearly every successive year, amid neglect, and even abuse, where now, in the same, or in contiguous enclosures, with the most pains-taking cultivation, newly-planted trees of the finer varieties scarcely thrive, and dwarfs refuse to grow and bear successfully at all. But we know few or no orchards of such large, ancient trees. Those we name are but the survivors of original orchards, long ago decimated, beyond even the memory of living men, showing that the pear on its own stock is the longest lived and hardiest of all our fruit trees, when it has survived the hazards incident to infancy and early maturity. There is one point gained, however; Mr. Hovey and some other tree propagators conceding that dwarfs are only adapted to high "garden" culture!

Again, my unfortunate May article has aroused the ire of another zealous pen, in the last November Horticulturist, - that of another Buffalo cultivator. This gentleman, after a six months' oblivious and blissful ignorance, by the aid of a friend, has discovered himself to be the "constitutionally obstinate" individual I hinted at, and incontinently hurls his ambitious rhetoric and tasteful periods at my offending head. To his truthful denunciation as a culturist, I bow in all humility, as the well-deserved punishment for my temerity in pretending to know anything in the sight of such an immaculate dwarf-pear-grower as himself; and had he then stopped, I should have been, as in all due reverence to such authority, silent. But when he seeks to exalt his own success by the relation of facts which he cannot prove, I object. As to the success of his fortunate neighbors in their dwarfs, I prefer they shall speak for themselves. Let us examine this new testimony: "Our coterie" commenced pear culture with a lot of "cheap" dwarf pears from New York, and this lot of "trash" constituted the groundwork of our plantations.

But he "got rid of that stock" by sale to others, when the "trash" proved to be good for nothing, and its place was supplied by the "thousand thrifty, well-grown trees" from Ellwanger & Barry, - or did they die a natural death on his own hands? As for mine, they grew, flourished, and bore, fruit, or dwindled, diseased, and died, in about equal proportions to the high-priced trees I got from the, same nursery that his "thousand" came from, and elsewhere, of the best I could get, until they all proved "trash" alike; while on one side of them stood a thrifty young apple-orchard, and on the other vigorous and healthy rows of orange quinces, with nursery pears on their own stocks, and a vigorous nursery of apples, pears, cherries, and plums, which Mr. Coppock had more than once seen, approved, and praised, - on good wheat and corn ground, too, - vide Barry. If he has "some thpusands" growing, bearing dwarfs in his grounds, instead of the forty or fifty standing in his garden, with now and then a crop, or a part of them that are worth talking about, he can probably show them to somebody, as well as state in figures the sums of money which he actually got for them, with the number of bushels of fruit.

I regret that he has called me to the stand as a witness; but being there, I freely testify that I certainly saw some excellent crops of well-grown Winkfields, Bartlets, and others on some of his trees last September, as well as some other trees full of shrunken, cracked, and worthless Virgalieus by the side of them, with sundry vacant spaces where still other dwarfs once stood, together with dead and blighted trees of the past summer; and to make a clean breast, I venture a "guess" that he has made ten dollars in buying "some thousand" dwarf trees at the nurseries, and selling them to his townsmen, where he has made a single dollar in the sale of his pears. Yet his history of his own success has been reprinted with evident gusto by sundry pomological editors, who will be deaf to any denial of his statements.

But enough on the defensive. I stand by every word in my article in the last May Horticulturist; and although many of the tree propagators have assailed that article with great bitterness, not a single pear orchardist of a dozen years' experience, has to my knowledge denied its general truth. I admit now, as I. did then, that we have localities where the pear, both standard and dwarf, do succeed as a market fruit; but such localities are not frequent. The objection that all those who fail do not properly cultivate their trees, is a calumny. Are nine-tenths of those who spend their money for dwarf pears such consummate idiots as to neglect their cultivation, and lose their trees in consequence, when they know that on their proper treatment every thing depends, and that with half the cultivation bestowed on them every thing else in the fruit line succeeds? Those who know any thing of the matter by experience will tell a different story. Trees won't grow in grass! I can point out scores of the finest dwarfs, as well as standards, I ever saw, growing on a turf lawn, with only a four or five foot circle of bare, forked earth around them, - trees which bear good occasional crops, quite equal to others in the deeply dug grounds of the adjoining garden.

The truthful and self-evident testimony of Mr. Norton, - not a tree propagator but a pear grower, - scores the like of which can be produced if men will only tell it, - is a convincing proof that I am correct; and I repeat, that when our markets can show anything like a fair assortment of good pears at prices less than sixpence to a York shilling, - a price so that a man can sit down and make a feast on them cheaper than he can on the same number of oranges or pine-apples, I shall believe that the millions of dwarf-trees which have been planted in the orchards and gardens of our country have been partially successful, but not sooner, let others denounce me as they may.

This article, like my other, Mr. Editor, will be complained of by some people as being tediously long, and entirely discordant to their taste; but the subject is worthy of full discussion, if it be worth anything, - and I now dismiss it by, in all fairness, asking the proof, by an exhibit in dollars and cents, of "the profits of dwarf pear culture for market purposes".