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Mr, Edwards — Mr. Ilausen, of Lee county, has fruited it, and con- 

 sidei's it one of tlie best. 



Mr. Galusha withdrew his amendment. 



Motion carried. 



Lawrence. — Mr. Hyde — One of the best pears of the season. 



Mr. Douglas — Quite hardy with us — late coming into bearing, but 

 a very healthy tree, and holds the leaf well. 



Mr. Bryant — My experience is that it has been planted fourteen 

 years without any fruit. 



Mr. Douglas — I think it is a very good sign in a pear tree not to 

 come into bearing too early. I have had the pear about seventeen 

 years, and it must have been about three years from the bud before 

 I planted it, and it is only about two years that it has borne; it looks 

 very promising, however. 



Mr. Earle — As regards its earliness in bearing it is without any 

 peer with us in Egypt. We have some of these trees that are prett}' 

 well set with fruit buds — about four years planted. I do not think 

 it has any fault whatever. I do not think I could say that with so 

 much emphasis with regard to any other variety. It is perfectly 

 hardy as a tree ; it holds its loaves well ; it bears well ; it never rots 

 at the core, and there is no better pear grown than the Lawrence. 



Madeleine. — Mr. Brown — It is very liable to blight at all times, 

 and I do not think it is valuable on that account. 



Napoleon. — Mr. Hyde — I move that Napoleon be stricken from the 

 list. Carried. 



Madeleine, again. — Mr. Galusha — I move the same as to Madeleine. 

 Carried. 



Louise Bonne de Jersey. — Mr. Earle — I would like to hear some- 

 thing about this. I have a good many of them, and I want to know 

 what to do. It leaf-blights very badly — no tree worse. It is an 

 excellent pear where the tree holds its leaf. I have seen that variety 

 the past year in a number of localities, standing in grass, and under 

 these circumstances it has held its leaves very well, and ripened its fruit 

 perfectly ; but whenever it does lose its leaves it is very astringent, and 



