FRUIT CATALOGUE. 



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SECTION XL-PEARS. 



ABBREVIATIONS FOB THIS SECTION. 



Color. 



d. dark. 1. light. r. re'd. 



g. green. o. orange. rn. rnseet. 



y. yellow. 



Remarks. 



When neglected proves nnproductive. Profitable under good treatment, and 



on dwarf stocks. At north loses quality. 

 One of the best late autumn pears, whether for market or home use. 

 The leading market sort. Too musky to suit some tastes. 

 No garden should be without this. Fruit best when house ripened. 

 Fruit fair and even in size. Will bear to be planted for market. 

 Popular as a market pear. .^Iso a good amateur fruit. 

 But little disseminated. A good early amateur pear. 

 Popular on account of the health, vigor, and productiveness of the tree. . 



Market. 

 Soon becomes dry and insipid, after ripening. A showy market pear. 

 A strong grower. Fine large fruit. Inclined to rot at the core. A good mai- 



ket pear if gathered early. 

 Liable to drop or be blown from the tree prematurely. 

 New; gives promise of value. 

 One of the few winter pears of high quality. 



Well known and esteemed, but too small to become very popular. 

 Fruit apt to be astringent on young trees. Should be house-ripened. 

 In a warm exposure and favorable season, this will be found satisfactory. 



Better south. 

 Little disseminated. A fruit of high quality. 

 Vigorous tree. Large, showy fruit, which decays soon at the center. Drops, 



and sometimes scabs or spots. 

 Fruit requires to be gathered before maturity— decays rapidly. 

 On old trees, when well ripened, this is an excellent pear. 

 Excellent for the amateur. 

 Not as well known as it should be. 

 Quite freely planted and generally esteemed. 

 Promising. Much like Sheldon. 

 Not as freely planted as it should be. 

 In this climate only valued for market and canning and that only at the south 



but when well grown it is a very profitable variety. 

 Tree healthy and vigorous. Should be grown on dry, warm soils. 

 A good market pear. Should always be grown as a dwarf. 

 An excellent and profitable old variety. 



The earliest pear of good quality. Sometimes slightly astringent. 



One of the most desirable amateur pears of its season. 



A promising late aatomn and early winter pear. Bears young. 



An early and abundant bearer. Lacks quality. 



A good, constant bearer of large, showy fruit of fair quality in most seasons. 



Tree vigorous, productive. Fruit sufficiently good for the market. 



Fruit somewhat like Benrre Bosc, but more variable 



Chiefly valued for the kitchen. Trees, strong, healthy. 



A New York seedling from Winter Nelis. 



Tree vigorous and productive. Fruit excellent, but unattractive in appear- 

 ance. 



The standard of high quality among pears. Tree forms a beautiful pyramid. 

 Profitable when buyers come to know it. 



A hardy, productive tree; and a good fruit for general purposes; not attractive 

 in appearance. 



Very large and beautiful. Variable in size. Not of high quality. 



Both tree and fruit well adapted for the market. 



An excellent and tine looking pear, but soon decays at the core. 



The best and most satisfactory very early pear. Valued for early market. 



A fine pear. Sometimes a little too acid. Productive. 



A beautiful tree. Fruit grown to some extent for the market. A tardy bearer. 



Too tardy a bearer. Ip being abandoned; probably for this reason. 



Tree very vigorous and productive ; its greatest recommendation for this cli- 

 mate. It often fails to ripen well. 



This old favorite is seldom successful in this State as it scabs and cracks. 



Much like Seckel but earlier. 



The fruit if well grown and ripened, is scarcely inferior to the Seckel. The 

 tree must not be allowed to overbear. 



