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POMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



POMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



BY A FRUIT GROWER AT WORCESTER, MASS. 



[The following notes, though anonymous, 

 are, as we can assure our readers, from 

 one of the most careful and judicious culti- 

 vators in New-England. Ed.] 



There are a few varieties of pears, among 

 a considerable number that I have had the 

 opportunity of testing, of the merits of which 

 I think some cultivators, at least, are not 

 well informed. I offer the results of my 

 experience, in relation to them, for what it 

 is worth. If my views are correct, it may 

 be of advantage to some one ; if not, it may 

 open the way for those who have had better 

 means of judging, to correct my errors. 



Beukre d'Amalis. — A large, handsome, 

 and very good pear. It has been called first 

 rate. I should call it good second rate ; but 

 it has so many good qualities as to make it 

 valuable, especially for market cultivation. 

 The tree is a good grower, and a remarka- 

 bly free bearer on alternate years, and has 

 the recommendation — no small one, by the 

 way — of perfecting its fruit, however full 

 it may bear. It is very juicy and good fla- 

 vored, and is much improved by ripening 

 in the house. It comes immediately be- 

 fore the Bartlett. 



RosTiEZER. — The best summer pear I 

 have yet seen, — superior even to Dear- 

 born's Seedling. The tree makes a clean, 

 strong and beautiful growth. Wood dark 

 olive, nearly as dark as the Rousselet de 

 Rheims. Foliage large. It gives promise 

 of being an early and free bearer. Fruit 

 finely formed, fair and handsome, a little 

 under medium size, very juicy, with a fine 

 aromatic flavor. It ripens here the latter 

 part of August, between the Bloodgood and 

 Dearborn's Seedling. 



Doyenne Botjssouck. — After four years 

 acquaintance with this pear, I consider it 

 decidedly one of the greatest of our recent 

 acquisitions in pomology. Tree of tolera- 

 bly vigorous growth, and a great and con- 

 stant bearer. Fruit large ; in form, consi- 

 derably resembling the White Doyenne or 

 St. Michael, light green, becoming a bright 

 lemon yellow, sometimes with a slightly 

 red cheek. Surface somewhat uneven, like 

 the Duchesse d'Angouleme. Flesh rather 

 coarse, but very juicy, buttery and good fla- 

 vored. Specimens have been repeatedly 

 shown at our horticultural exhibition, where 

 they were generally supposed to be the St. 

 Michael, brought to extra size by high cul- 

 tivation. In quality, it approximates very 

 near that kind, but is distinguished from it 

 by its more uneven surface, its stouter stem, 

 rather coarser grain, and greater size. The 

 leaf is broader, with a shorter petiole. This 

 tree was imported from France by Wm. 

 Kenrick, in 1841. 



Glout Morceau. — My pears of this va- 

 riety, the last season, were magnificent in 

 size, and delicious in quality. I think it a 

 much superior pear to the Beurre d'Arem- 

 berg, with which the French seem to have 

 confounded it. The only objection ever 

 made to it has been its tendency, sometimes, 

 not to perfect itself. This, I think, is owing 

 either to deficient cultivation or to indulg- 

 ing it in its strong propensity to overbear. 

 Giving this objection all the weight it is 

 entitled to, it is still a most valuable kind, 

 well worth some extra pains to bring it to 

 perfection. This, I think, may be done by 

 generous treatment, especially by the use 

 of bone dtist about the roots, and by removing 



