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confidence, to the notice of amateurs and 

 collectors of good fruit. 



Fruit large, oblong, rather angular, 

 and slightly ribbed near the eye. Skin 

 smooth, golden yellow at maturity, with 

 numerous scattered gray dots. Stalk 

 short, rather slender, planted in a cavity 

 which is deep and rather narrow. Ca- 

 lyx small, closed, set in a deep, plaited 

 basin. Core large, hollow, in which the 

 small seeds rattle when the fruit is sha- 

 ken. Flesh white, tender, of a lively, 

 agreeable and rather rich sub-acid flavor. 

 October and November. 



in. THE BEURRE d'aNJOU PEAR. 



A noble fruit, we believe of French 

 origin. We gave a brief description of 

 it in our work on Fruits, and remarked, 

 that though placed as, perhaps, synony- 

 mous with the Brown Beurre by Thomp- 

 son, it had been proved, in this country, to 

 be quite distinct. 



To the President of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, we owe the first in- 

 troduction of this fruit to American gar- 

 dens. It has borne, in his collection, now 

 for five years. We have, ourselves, tasted 

 specimens three years successively; and 

 can agree with Col. Wilder in considering 



Fig. 46. — The Beurre ifAnjou Pear. 



it one of the very finest new autumn pears 

 that has yet been received from European 

 collections. Its large size, productiveness, 

 and the fair appearance, and delicious fla- 

 vor of the fruit, cannot fail to make it wor- 

 thy of a trial, even in small and select col- 

 lections of fruit, in all parts of the country. 

 It is in perfection in October and Novem- 

 ber ; and the fruit keeps well. 



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FROM THE FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 



The gardening'world is certainly indebted 

 to Mr. Robert Fortune, the collector of the 

 London Horticultural Society, for some of 

 the most valuable acquisitions. First in 

 universal value, among all the plants 

 brought out by him from China, we may 

 rank some hardy shrubs, which, having 

 been distributed by the Horticultural So- 



ciety, are now to be seen among the finest 

 novelties of the shrubbery in England, and 

 are just beginning to find their way to the 

 United States. Of these the three follow- 

 ing shrubs may be particularly recommend- 

 ed to the attention of our readers, as likely 

 to prove exceedingly ornamental, and quite 

 hardy in the latitude of New- York. 



