FRUIT CATALOGUE. 

 SECTION XIII.— PEARS— Continued. 



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Remarks. 



Like winter pears generally, this has not been largely planted. 



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



Tre« vigorous. Fruit large. Quality poor at the north. Better south. 



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



The earliest pear of good quality. Sometimes slightly astringent. 



One of the most desirable amateur pears of its season. 



A promising late autumn 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. 



High vinous flavor ; rich. Becomes productive with high culture. 



Fruit somewhat like Beurre 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 pyra- 

 mid. 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 fine looking pear, but soon decays at the core. 



An old variety ; now to a great extent superseded. 



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. Is being abandoned ; probably for this reason. 



Tree very vigorous and productive ; its greatest recommendation for this 



climate. It often fails to ripen well. 

 This pear should be planted in every garden. 



This old favorite is generally successful in this State ; but occasionally 



scabs and cracks. 

 The vigor and beauty of the tree, and the size of the fruit, are its sole 



recommendations. 

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



tree must not be allowed to overbear. 



