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TWO NEW PEARS. 



that this pear, wherever known in this state, 

 has all bccH propagated, directly or indirect- 

 ly, from that identical source. They are 

 all grafted trees. Mr. Killman's trees 

 are from fifteen to twenty years old. 

 They are verj' hardy, and very great 

 bearers — generally producing three or 

 four bushels each. One of them has 

 borne six bushels in one year. These 

 all stand in grass land, and have not 

 received any culture. Some younger 

 trees that Mr. Killman has, have grown 

 astonishingly, and indeed this variety 

 has more vigor, hardiness, and produc- / 

 tiveness than even the Bartlett, so po- 

 pular everywhere for these qualities. 



"We will add to the foregoing, that we 

 at first conjectured this might be some 

 old European variety. But other able 

 pomologists, to whom we showed the 

 fruit, as well as ourselves, gre unable to 

 identify it with any such. There is, 

 therefore, ever\' probability that the 

 tree at Farmington, Connecticut, fortv years 

 ago, was a native.* At any rate, it is 

 a fruit of the first class, unknown to our 

 cultivators, and Ave have very little doubt, 

 from what we have ourselves seen of Van 

 Mons'' Leon le Clerc, a very celebrated recent 

 variety, about the same size and season, 

 that the Onondaga will prove superior to it. 



Neither Swa7i's Orange, nor Onondaga 

 Seedling, local names by which this fruit is 

 somewhat known in Western New- York, 

 can, with any propriety, be retained as the 

 name of this variety. Mr. Case's name, if 

 that of any person, should be coupled with 

 the fruit, as having brought it into notice. 

 It is plain enough that it is not a seedling 

 of this state. But since the fruit seems 

 now almost unknown in Connecticut, and so 



well known in Onondaga county, we can 

 find no better name for it than the excellent 

 one — Onondatra. * 



* This point, if it can be ascertained, we shall be able to 

 speak of with more certainty soon. 



Fig. 78. The Osvego Beurre. 



II. 



OSWEGO BEURRE. 



Reed's Seedling. 



A new native pear of excellent qualities, 

 raised from a seed of the White Doyenne, 

 by Mr. Walter Reed of Oswego, N. Y, 

 It combines, in a great degree, the finer 

 qualities of the White Doyenn^ and the 

 Brown Beurre ; is a remarkably hardy, 

 thrifty sort, an early and abundant bearer, 

 and will undoubtedly soon become a very 

 popular variety. 



Fruit of medium size, form oval-obovate, 

 regular. Skin smooth, yellowish-green, 

 streaked and mottled with thin russet. Stalk 

 short and stout, set in a bold and rather deep 

 cavity. Calyx much like that of the White 

 Doyenne, small, closed, set in a smooth re- 

 gular hasin, which is only moderately de- 



* Messrs. Elwanger. and Barry of Rochester, we believe^ 

 have a few trees in their nurseries, of this scarce variety. 



