Consellier Ranwez

Obtained and dedicated to his friend Consellier Ranwez, by Van Mons, towards 1830.

* See Frontispiece.

The tree is one of our most vigorous growers, a first-rate bearer, and seems to succeed in all soils fitted for pear trees.

As a market fruit, large and of good quality, we think we can safely recommend it; the tree yields abundant and almost sure crops, being hardy and sound. Fruit obovate pyriform, large; with a long stem, and a green skin, which changes little towards maturity. Flesh juicy, melting a little, coarse but pleasant.

It is better suited to the pear than to the quince stock. Ripe in Boston and New York state from the end of September to the beginning of October.

L. E. Berckmans.

Constant Bloomers

Cymedor, crimson, tinged with purple; Duchesse de Montpensier, delicate pink, satin-like; Duchess of Sutherland, pink, of beautiful form; Prince of Wales, rosy lilac, shaded; Armosa, delicate pink, small; Pompone Parfait, purple; Cornice de Seine et Marne, cherry red, shaded; Leveson Gower, rose color, large; Madame Angelina, cream color; Queen of Bourbons, most beautiful fawn; Aimee Vibert, pure white; Fellenberg, bright crimson; Miss Glegg, pure white, centre tinged; Goubault, brilliant rose color, large; Maria Leonida, white, tinged with pink; Blairii No. 2, pale blush; Paul Ricaut, bright crimson. Constant Bloomers, Show Flowers, - Baronne Prevost, bright rose color, large; Geant des Batailles, most vivid scarlety crimson; Souvenir de la Malmaison, creamy flesh blush; Comte de Paris, deep flesh-colored blush; Devoniensis, creamy white and straw.

Consumption

Second Edition. 12mo. 290 pages. $L

The Nature of Consumption.

It very first infallible Symptoms.

The Rules by which to distinguish it from ail other Diseases of the Throat and Lungs.

The importance of the very earliest attention to Ha first mint beginnings.

The certainty with which it can then be averted.

The rarity of cure when the Lungs have once begun to give way.

The remarkable efficacy of out-door activities, without any medicine whatever, in all stages of the disease, illustrated by striking cases in the practice of eminent physicians in different parts of the country.

The worthlessness of the Nitrate of Silver, of Medicated Inhalations, and various other remedies.

Without pure sir, substantial food, and. moderate but long-continued exercise, daily, no medicine yet known has any reliable value.

The Contest

We have passed through a contest for power unequalled for its virulence; but it has happily passed - the voice of nature may again be heard amid the beauties of the garden and the field; the wily politician who has won may, if he pleases, accept the cares of office, and the disappointed return to his labors; if of the farm and the greenhouse, he may yet be happy.

" Ah! who, when snch life's momentary dream,

Would mix in hireling Senates, strenuous there

To crush the renal Hydra, whose fell crests

Rise with recruited venom from the wound!

Who, for so Tain a conflict, would forego

Thy sylvan haunts, celestial solitude I

Where self-improvement, crowned with self-content,

Await to bless thy votary?"