This pear still finds its way to our markets; fruit dealers inform me, that in many localities it remains untouched with this malady, and that their supplies are uniform, and the fruit fine.

Mem #1

A beautiful tree of this variety, 8 years old, was run over by a careless driver of a wagon, and broken flat down, the stem split for a foot or more, eight inches from the quince, and lay so all night, in March last. In the morning, after sorrowing over it as a lost friend, I raised it up, brought the parts together as welt as possible, and bound them, covering all with grafting wax; put on splints, and lashed it firmly to stakes. In July I run a knife over the binding, and took off splints and stakes. It is now as sound as ever, having borne a crop, and passed through some severe storms.

Bloodgood and Osborne's Summer are both fine pears, but with me are shy bearers - while Doyenne d'Ete, Dearborn's Seedling and Beurre Gou-baidt are fruitful to a fault. They require to be thinned out in order to get their best size and flavor.

Mem #2

A correspondent of the Country Gentleman states, in a recent number, that red cedar twigs bound around the bodies of fruit-trees, with the butts uppermost, will effectually protect the trees from all kinds of injurious insects.