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attractive appearance. It is not quite as productive as the white, but not inferior to it 

 in any other respect. These kinds ripen together in the latter part of August. 



Buffum — Trees of a vigorous, upright growth, and remarkably fruitful, though 

 somewhat tardy. The fruit is apt to be quite small as the result of excessive fruiting. 

 When taken from the trees at the proper time, this pear is of excellent quality, being 

 almost as sweet as honey. If left to ripen on the tree it is mealy and nearly worthless. 

 It has not the size and appearance to make it a profitable fruit in markets where size 

 and color are everything, and quality only a secondary consideration. 



Buerre Diel. — Trees, on quince roots originally, now seven years planted, produced 

 their first full crop in 1867. The fruit was magnificent. The trees were exceedingly 

 vigorous in growth , but the past season they have shown a tendency to drop their 

 leaves prematurely and the fruit was inferior. Season, latter part of September. 



Buerre d' Anjou. — Trees on quince roots, ten years old, very moderate growers 

 with rather meager foliage. They have proved, with me, very shy bearers, but what 

 fi^uit they have produced has been as near perfect, taking size and quality into 

 account, as it seems possible for a pear to be. The trees are healthy, and with greater 

 age may fruit more freely. 



Seckel. — The only possible objections to this well known pear are its small size, and 

 the tardiness of the tree in coming to bearing. Certainly, nature never elaborated in 

 any other fruit a combination of flavors and juices so delicious as she mingles within 

 the modest coat of the Seckel pear. Fortunately, the trcQ^ is remarkably healthy, form- 

 ing a well-.shaped, symmetrical head almost without care. With me, the fruit has 

 been of unusual size for this variety, many specimens measuring two and three-quar- 

 ter inches in their transverse diameter. On older trees this large size can only be kept 

 up by judicious pruning and thinning. 



Steven's Genessee. — Tree handsome and moderately healthy, but mine have proved 

 unfruitful, producing only a few specimens of very large, handsome and delicious 

 pears . 



Onondaga. — My trees of this variety on quince roots, were outcasts or ought to have 

 been, in the beginning, and have made a very poor scraggy growth,. They have, 

 however, been productive of very large, handsome fruit, very highly flavored, but too 

 acid for most tastes. Ripens in October. I shall try this kind further with better 

 trees . 



Louise Bonne de Jersey. — This well known variety succeeds with me, as it seems to 

 do almost everywhere. The trees are vigorous and productive, but somewhat subject 

 to blight. The fruit is large, handsome and good, and brings good prices in market. 



Vicar of Winkfleld. — I have discarded this much lauded kind, for the reason that the 

 tree is one of the very worst to blight, whilst the fruit, when you get it, is generally 

 of precious little value. 



Glout Morceau. — My trees have all died with the blight, after producing a single 

 crop. The fruit is very large, or rather part of it is very large and part rather small. 

 It is also variable in quality, sometimes very fine and sometimes exceedingly 

 astringent. 



Duchesse d' Angouleme.— This is the only pear I should cai-e to cultivate on the 

 quince stock. The tree is entirely healthy. Fruit very large and plenty of it. Ripens 

 with me in October, and always brings fair prices. I consider this, next to the 

 Bartlett, the most profitable of all the market sorts in my collection. 



