INTERMEDIATE NATIVE FRUIT REPORT. 



Wilmington Pear. 



[7 



Ontario Pear. 



only a sinplo sjicciincn, wliich wns 

 eaten on the 2(J of October. In 

 185G, it matured ten Kpeciincns ; 

 the first was eaten on the 9th of 

 September — the last during the 

 meeting of the American Pouiolo- 

 gical Society in Kochcster. The 

 original tree has not yet fruited. 



Size, medium, from 2 and 11- 

 16th inches by 2^ to 2} by 2 and 

 5-lGths. Form, sometimes ob- 

 tuse-pyriforra, somewhat com- 

 pressed at the sides, sometimes 

 roundisli-ovate ; which of these 

 two forms will ultimately be the 

 normal one, can only be deter- 

 mined when the variety has fully 

 established its characteristic pe- 

 culiarities. Skin, cinnamon rus- 

 set, with patches of greenish- 

 yellow on the shaded side, and 

 sometimes faint traces of carmine 

 on the part exposed to the sun, 

 witli occasionally a number of 

 black dots, encircled by a car- 

 mine margin. Stem, somewhat 

 variable, from 1^ inches by one- 

 eighth to one and one-fourth by 

 one-sixth, of a uniform, cinnamon 

 color, curved ; inserted obliquely 

 in a small cavity, and, in some 

 instances, without depression. 

 Calyx, medium, with short, erect 

 segments, set in a wide, rather 

 deep, sometimes slightly furrowed 

 basin. Core, medium. Seed,d3ivk 

 brown, acuminate, with an angle, 

 at the obtuse end, three-eighths 

 of an inch long, three-sixteenths 

 wide, and one-eighth thick. Flesh, 

 fine texture, melting, and buttery. 

 Flavor, rich and saccharine, with 

 the delicious aroma of the Passe 

 Colmar. Qnah'ii/, " hest.''^ Ma- 

 turity, September. Eaten, Octo- 

 ber 2, 1855. 



Ontario Pear. — This new na- 

 tive Pear was concisely noticed in 

 our Rochester Report. Since 

 that time, other specimens have 

 been examined, which enables the 

 Committee to give a more full 



