I send you the following notes on Pears we are now using, Dec. 10. I have just eaten my last specimen of Beurre Diet and Beurre Anjou. It is not generally known, I think, that these two noble Pears, if gathered late and kept cool, will keep nearly as long as cither the Lawrence, Vicar of Winkfield, or Winter Nelis; they ripen perfectly well in the cellar, too. My Winter Nelis and Glout Morceau are both ripe, and will not keep much longer. Nothing can be more delicious than the Winter Nelis; the Glout Morceau is also fine, but it would be better if ripened in a higher temperature. The Vicar will not ripen so as to be presentable at dessert without the aid of a higher temperature than the cellar. My specimens are now beautiful as they can be in color, a pale, clear straw color. The other day I was tempted to put some on the table, but my guests who sensed them eagerly, were sorely disappointed. It is an invaluable fruit, bat it mutt have a week or two in a temperature of 60° or 60° before it is fit to be eaten. My Easter Beurres, picked in middle of September, are now ripe, and how delicious! I can not praise this Pear too highly.

It ripens to complete perfection in the cellar without any other care than we give Apples, and we can have it all winter by picking at different times. Those picked in the middle of October are now green and hard, and will leep sound and fresh till April. Epine Dumas (Due de Bordeaux) is a beautiful and fine fruit, but it requires ripening in heat to be perfected. It is as beautiful and better than Vicar, and must be much more extensively grown than I think it is. Josephine de Maline begins to ripen, and is good; an excellent keeper. It has much of the flavor of Pane Colmar; and the tree, too, resembles it in several features. Are they not evidently akin! Beurre d'Arembergs are in their prime just now, and may keep a month longer. We unanimously set them down as "best," in the same category with Winter Nelis and Easter Beurré, requiring no care in ripening - a Pear for every body. I must reserve other notes for the future. Genesee.