Excerpt from The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, 1867, Vol. 33 Other varieties are named in various quarters, but nothing reliable can be stated regarding them. We shall give a survey of grape culture for 1866, in another number. The year has added but little to our information upon pear culture. The blight and its causes have been discussed by the western pomological societies, but no practical results obtained. Some writers have suggested salt as a remedy, because pears flourish so well on the Atlantic coast, and in the salt regions of New York; we will only say to our culti vaters that salt and iron are dangerous substances to introduce into the fruit-garden. We have had actual experience with the former, and refer to our last volume (p. 43) for an account of the injurious effects of the latter. Many new American seedlings have been introduced the last three or four years, most of which we have figured and described; they have not yet been fully tested. The latest additions are the Hebe, Margaret, Dorson, and Wharton's Early. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.