266 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Tigorous grower, and an early bearer. Fruit medium or above, of good ap- 

 pearance, and in quality " very good." Season November and December. 



SOUVENIR DU COXCtRESS 



is a pear attracting considerable attention on this side of the ocean, but orig- 

 inating in France, the originator, M. Morel, dedicating it to the Pomological 

 Congress of France : hence its name. 



The fruit is large or very large, in form like Bartlett ; skin yellow, with the 

 exposed side bright red or carmine; flesh musky, like Bartlett, though in a less 

 degree. Season last of August and beginning of September. Tree vigorous, 

 productive ; of pyramidal habit. 



Our wide-awake American amateurs are in the habit of closely watching the 

 European novelties of the day, and of importing the same. Hence eastern ex- 

 perimenters are seldom without a very considerable number of these recent, 

 and yet untested introductions which, as they come into bearing, become 

 represented upon the tables and in the discussions of eastern culturists. A 

 very considerable list of varieties now undergoing this process might be here 

 presented, but the unexpected length of these notes warns us to leave them to 

 await the weeding process. We only note that the American Pomolofirical 

 Society's Committee on Foreign Fruits, at its last session, and also the West- 

 ern New York Horticultural Society, at its session one year since, recom- 

 mended the following as possessing more than ordinary merit : 



Beurre Samoyeau, medium size, last of September and first of October ; 

 Madame Desportes, medium size, September and October; Abbe de Beaumont, 

 medium size, August and September; Eugene Appert, medium size, without 

 season; Eolmaston Dachesse, medium size, October. 



PLUMS 



have for so long a period been subjected to the reign of the curculio that the 

 enthusiasm of experimenters for the origination of new varieties seems to have 

 fallen nearly or quite to zero. Hence there is little to chronicle in the way of 

 novelties, the little that is attempted being mainly in the direction of curcu- 

 lio-proof sorts. 



MINER. 



is an improved variety of the wild or Chickasaw plum, and received its name 

 from its originator, a Mr. Miner, of Lancaster, Pa. Fruit medium, oblong and 

 pointed at the apex ; skin dark, purplish red, covered with bloom. Flesh soft, 

 juicy, vinous, adhering to the stone. Season, October. Its thick, tough skin 

 enables it to resist the operations of the " Little Turk" to some extent, while it 

 is said to be hardy enough to withstand the trying winters of our northwestern 

 States. 



WILD GOOSE 



is a name conferred upon a variety of our native Chickasaw plum, as report 

 has it, from the alleged fact that the seed which produced the original tree was 

 found in the stomach of a wild goose. 



