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TWENTY-FIVE PEARS. 



ferent new fruits, in various parts of the 

 country, I add a few hasty notes of my ex- 

 perience with twenty-five sorts of pears in 

 my collection. The trees were planted in 

 1S37, and have been in bearing several 

 years. 



Beurre Bosc. This capital fruit cannot 

 be overpraised. As it always bears with 

 moderation, the fruit is always of good size, 

 the appearance handsome, the quality most 

 excellent. As a September pear, I pre- 

 fer it to all others received from Eu- 

 rope within the last twenty years. 



Beukre RoMAiN. A pretty good 

 pear, and an excellent bearer. The 

 fruit is always fine, but its flavor not 

 quite first rate. 



Cabot. Bears immense crops, and 

 is a handsome Brown Beurr^-like pear. 

 But it rots so quickly at the core 

 after it approaches maturity, that it is 

 of little value. 



BoN Chretien Fondante. A most 

 variable fruit — sometimes juicy, melt- 

 ing and delicious, at others worthless. 

 Cannot be depended on with me. 



Dearborn's Seedling. Perhaps the 

 finest of all early pears. Flavor ex- 

 cellent ; without a single faulty speci- 

 men on a tree ; and the tree itself an 

 exceeding and most regular bearer. 

 It appears to me this variety is not 

 generally estimated as it deserves. In 

 my experience, it proves the finest of 

 all early pears. 



Golden Beurre of Bilboa. This 

 remarkably fine fruit ripens here at the last 

 of August. I think it worthy of all com- 

 mendation. It is so uniformly handsome, 

 of a beautiful pale gold colour, and the 

 skin always marked with a russetty patch 

 or escutcheon, round the stalk. It bears well 

 with me, both on pear and quince stocks, 

 and the flavor is delicious. It is seldom 



seen in this neighborhood; but it deserves 

 to be a general favorite. [We concur in 

 this opinion, and annex an outline of this 

 excellent fruit. — Ed.] 



Princess of Orange. Sometimes excel- 

 lent, but not to be depended on, except on 

 pear stocks, and not of first-rate flavor then. 



Washington. A good and handsome 

 native pear, and when well cultivated, very 

 beautiful. 



Fig. 29. Golden Beurre of Bilboa. 



Beurre Diel. Always large and pro- 

 ductive, but the flavor can only be depended 

 on when it is grafted on quince bottom. On 

 pears, especially if the tree is young, it is 

 frequently pithy and tasteless. The same 

 remarks will apply to the Duchess of Angou- 

 Ume. 



Comprette. Not a large fruit, nor a very 



