NEW APPLES. — POIRE PECHE (eSPEREN.) 



NEW APPLES.* 



The Carolina June Apple. — Of this apple, we have had from private growers, 

 more especially at the South, very favorable accounts ; and we append the several 

 opinions of well known cultivators at a late Pomological Convention : — 



''Carolina June. — Mr. Phojnix, of Illinois, observed that it was widely known 

 at the West and South, and was a fine fruit. Mr. Ernst considered it worthy of 

 trial. Mr. Hodge had found 'it to succeed very well. It was fair, of good quality, 

 and a little later than the Early Harvest. Dr. Brinckld had seen it the past sea- 

 son, and considered it very fine, and worthy of cultivation. Mr. Downing did not 

 think it nearly so fine as the Early Harvest, and it was, with him, two weeks later 

 in ripening. Mr. Negus, of Iowa, observed that it kept through the months of 

 August and September, and was more handsome and salable than any other 

 variety in his vicinity. Recommended as promising well." 



In the Southwest, the Carolina June appears to be really earlier than Early 

 Harvest ; but it has not so proved in New York, and other places at the North, 

 where it is from one to two weeks later, and its flavor not so good as at the South. 

 This is, no doubt, the effect of climate, the South suiting Carolina June better 

 than the Early Harvest, and vice versa. 



Meaveraclc's Sweet, or Maverick Sweet. — This description we take from White's 

 Gardening for the Sotith : "Very large, roundish, irregular, sometimes slightly 

 conical, striped with bright red, sprinkled with greenish flecks. Stem, short, in 

 a rather large, regular cavity. Calyx, open. Basin, medium. Skin, rather thick. 

 Flesh, fine grained, tender, of sweet, excellent flavor. Ripens, November and 

 December." Mr. White is a pomologist to be depended on ; he furnishes us, this 

 month, with the ad interim Report of the Committee of the Pomological Society 

 of Georgia, to which we refer with great satisfaction. 



POIRE PECHE (ESPEREN). 



We have been favored with specimens of 

 this Pear by M. de Jonghe, of Brussels. The 

 variety was raised from seed by Major Espe- 

 ren in 1835 or 1836, and bore for the first 

 time in 1845. The accompanying figure 

 represents the form of the fruit. Skin, green- 

 ish-yellow. The flesh is yellowish-white, very 

 melting, with abundance of rich, sugary, re- 

 freshing juice. In ordinary seasons, its pe- 

 riod of maturity in this country will probably 

 be near the end of August. The tree is 

 vigorous, productive, and grafted trees soon 

 come into bearing. The shoots are of a clear 

 yellowish color, like those of the Passe Col- 

 mar ; the leaves ovate, slightly acuminate. 



Many of the early pears now in cultiva- 

 tion are dry and musky, and, on the whole, 

 so worthless, that the trees ought to be de- 

 stroyed, and replaced by superior kinds, of 

 which one may be the Poire Peche, It is 

 hardy, and bears well as a standard. — Lon- 

 don Gardeners'' Chronicle. 



* See Frontispiece, 



Vol, VII,— October, 1857. 



