Mr. Allen looks on the dark side of the picture. Still he may be partially right. Let us compute the number of Pear trees advertised by the different nurserymen in this March number of the Horticulturist:

Daniel Brinkerhoof of Fishkill, lias 20,000, of over 100 varieties.

William R. Prince & Co., of Flushing, have " 8,000 very large," besides an immense number of all sizes; and as Mr. Prince does things on a great scale, we may safely set him down at 100,000 altogether. A. Saul & Co., of Newburgh, have over 50,000 saleable trees, besides an equal number, as we may infer, of smaller ones. Hovey & Co., of Boston, have £0,000 trees of all the popular varieties, to say nothing of the unpopular ones.

Here are 250,000 pear trees advertised by four nurserymen. Then there are fourteen other advertisements of as many different nurserymen, who may average 20,000 each, making 280,000 trees more; in all, upwards of half a million of trees produced by eighteen leading nurseries. This amount may be safely multiplied by four, for nurseries not represented, and we have the snug number of two millions of pear trees now on sale fit for planting! One half of them, if sold, may be safely estimated as lost by casualty, in which may be included losses in planting, blight, and destruction from other causes. Thus, are a million of trees to be planted, among probably a hundred thousand planters - certainly not a large number when so widely distributed.

This is simply statistics; and probably loose, and undented at that. So we see, that with all the pear plantations, we are not likely to be overstocked with fruit of this kind for many years. Go on, gentlemen pear-growers. lake our first parents, when driven from Eden, the wide world is before you, where to choose; and if you should, perchance, be like to overstock the country, the blight and other troubles will be sure to relieve your solicitude. The pear is too delicious a fruit to be free from deadly maladies, like the apple; and the lull luxury of its bounties is not to be enjoyed without "much tribulation".

Mr. A.'s "dozen varieties" may answer the purposes of some people, but I fancy few pear growers will be content with such meager limits. "Variety is the spice of life," and all the infinity of new varieties in pears will be tried, whether they have any " spice" in them, or not, beyond the pungency of paying for a fancy article.

The fate of his " Orange Pear" is not alone in the annate of pomological experience. Among them he may find many parallels in the want of public appreciation of one's favorites, and possibly now and then a man who may have mentally recited the blubbering lamentation of the boy, in companionship with Mr. A.'s non-classical extract:

" I never had a piece of toaet Particularly good and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side".