INTERMEDIATE NATIVE FRUIT REIHDRT. 



Cnrucir Peak. — I'hc Cliurcli Pear is believed to be a seedling; raised by an old 

 ]Iiiirwfiiot settler at New lloelielle. The ori^^iiial tree stands uii tlie jireiniscs of 

 L. i*. Miller, Escj., and is presumed to be nearly a hundred years uld. It bears, 

 annually, from fourteen to twenty bushels of fruit, is uncomnnuily healthy and 

 vi.u'orous, having no decayed limb about it, and spreads its lordly head over three 

 or four square rods. The trunk, two feet above the ground, is six or seven feet 

 in circumference. 



Si:c, medium, 2 aud 3-16th inches in length by 2 and 5-16lhs in breadth. Form, 

 short-turbinatc, largest in the middle, and tapering both ways, ^/m, greenish- 

 yellow, russeted at the base and crown, with occasionally russet markings on other 

 portions of the exterior. Ste/)i, long, from 1 to If inches by | iu thickness, of a 

 cinnamon color, and inserted without depression. Calyx, closed, with short seg- 

 ments, set in a moderately wide, plaited basin. Cure, medium. Seed, brown, 

 ovate, with an angle at the obtuse end, one-third of an inch long, one-fifth broad, 

 one-eighth thick. Flesh, of line texture, and buttery. Flavor, mild, pleasant, 

 and sufQciently saccharine. Quality, "very good." Maturity, commences ri|)en- 

 iug about the middle of July, and continues till the end of September. 



Futui'e observation will determine whether or not the Clark Pear, of Connec- 

 ticut, the Eerga- 

 mot of Dr. Blood- 

 good, of Flushing, 

 the Sallaignac, of 

 Germantown, and 

 Carr's Autumn 

 Bergamot, are 

 synonymous with 

 the Church of New 

 Rochelle. 



Parsonage 

 Pear.— The Par- 

 sonage is also be- 

 lieved to have ori- 

 ginated at New 

 Rochelle. It stands 

 on the premises of 

 the Rev. Dr. R. 

 M. Morgan, and 

 is a constant and 

 abundant bearer, 

 of from ten to 

 twenty bushels an- 

 nually. 



Size, large, 3^ 

 inches in length by 

 21 in width. Form, 

 pyriform, usually 

 rounded at the 

 base, sometimes 

 long-turbinatje. 

 Skin, yellow, in- 

 terspersed with nu- 

 Selleck Pear. merousrussetdots, 



