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TWO NEW AMERICAN PEARS. 



DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW AMERICAN PEARS. 



BY DR. W. D. HKIMCLE, I'lllLAIJl^M'IIlA. 



Fig. 111. SMITH'S MOYAMENSING. 

 This fine summer pear originated in the 

 garden of J. B. Smith, Esq., the well known 

 Philadelphia amateur horticulturist. The 

 original tree is 70 or SO years old, and has 

 always been a constant and uniform bearer. 

 Mr. Smith's residence being in the district 

 of Moyamensing, this pear was named 

 Smith's Moyamensing, by the Pennsylva- 

 nia Horticultural Society, in 1845. 



Fruit, of medium size, and in some sea- 

 sons quite large, of a roundish obovate 

 form, with a fleshy stem, nearly an inch 

 long. Skin, of a lemon colour, with occa- 

 sionally blotches and lines of yellowish rus- 

 set. Calyx, set in a furrowed basin, these 

 furrows sometimes extending some distance 

 up the sides. Flesh, buttery, melting, and 



well flavored. Ripens from the middle of 

 July till September. 



THE HADDINGTON PEAR. 

 This new winter pear was also raised by 

 J. B. Smith, Esq., from n seed of the Pound 

 Pear, planted in 1827. It fruited for the first 

 time in 1840. The fruit was exhibited at a 

 meeting of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 



Fig. 112. The Haddington Pear. 



Society, in Feb. 1841, and was named by 

 the Society, " Haddington ;" it having been 

 grown by Mr. Smith during his residence 

 at that place, though it now stands in his 

 garden in Moyamensing. 



