The probable crossing, by accident, of the common pear with the Chinese Sand Pear, which has given us the Le Conte and the Kieffer, only shows what may be done when we go deliberately to work to improve the pear. Mr. Barber, in the Lancaster Farmer, recommends that we drop this accidental plan. "It would be better not to depend on bees to carry the pollen as they may take pollen from the poorest pears, but by opening the flowers on a Chinese, and carefully removing the pistils before the pollen is ripe, and then with a camel's hair brush take the pollen off of a flower of a superior variety, and apply to the stigma of the one you wish to impregnate, you can hardly fail of success, and a new and superior class of pears will be the result."