LARGEST DESSERT PEAR. 



By the way — should you deem this article worthy of publication — I would remark that 

 the time to cut out the plum knot is the latter part of June, when the green knots begin 

 to appear ; if then cut out C^^\h thoroughly, (that is the black line run- 



ning up and down all remov- \ . j J ed,) they will never return. 1 have 



the scars on my trees, but \ \H not a single knot — my neighbor's trees 



are dead or dying. \ |\\ W. 



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THE LARGEST DESSERT PEAR. 



Few of the French pears, imported into this coun- 

 try fifteen or twenty years ago, have so well stood 

 their ground in the public estimation, as the Dutch 

 ess of Angouleme. A natural seedling found grow- 

 ing in a hedge in a piece of woods near Angers, it has a 

 robust habit of growth, and is well adapted to all the 

 middle states, the west and the south. It should always 

 be borne in mind, however, that the fruit never attains 

 its highest flavor, at least in our gardens on this side of 

 the Atlantic, except when the sort is grafted on a quince 

 stock. Besides this, the large size of the fruit renders it 

 much more likelj' to be blown off when grown standard high, 

 on a pear stock, than when dwarfed on the quince. 

 We believe no fine flavored pear attains anything like the size of this: 

 only the Catillac and one or two other cooking pears equalling it in this re- 

 spect. 



One object in referring to this variety ai present, is to call attention to the 

 perfection to which it is grown about Boston. Many cultivators there, train 

 this variety upon an upright trellis, by which the utmost perfection of size 

 and flavored is obtained. The cut herewith presented is an exact outline oi 

 a specimen grown by S.Leeds, Esq., of Boston, and would not be consider- 

 ed of unusual size at the Horticultural Shows in that city. It weighed ex- 

 actly one pound nine ounces, was of a deep golden yellow, with reddish 

 brown specks on the surAvce of the skin, and excellent flavor. 



Outline of a Duchess of Akgouleme Peak, raised at Boston. 



