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FOREIGN rEAK& 



riuins have succeeded according to locality. In some places the trees are nearly- 

 destroyed by tlie black bunches on the branches ; and in such localities the crop has 

 failed. But in favorable localities the crop has been abundant even of the more deli- 

 cate varieties. 



Pears have done well, and those who have been most faithless are beginning to 

 open their eyes (and labor with their hands) to the culture of the better kinds, all 

 which, with proper care, are admirably at home in this region. 



The apple crop is short, which may be attributed mainly to the fact that reliance is 

 yet placed, to an extent, on old and ill-cultivated trees which have have had their day 

 and served two or three generations, who have rewarded them by injudicious pruning 

 and miserable culture until their day and strength is past, and they ask to be let 

 alone to die and have their places supplied by new orchards, more kind care to 

 which will provoke greater fruitfulness, and give strength to live out a more vigorous 

 and extreme old age. 



TWO FINE FOREIGN PEARS. 



The Beurre Goubault. — This variety originated at Angers, France, and has been 

 sent out from the nurseries of M. Le Roy and others there. It has already been con- 

 siderably disseminated in this 

 country, and as far as we 

 know it stands well. It is 

 one of the most vigorous and 

 beautiful trees, and one of the 

 most productive we know of, 

 among the hundreds of varie- 

 ties we now cultivate. The 

 texture of the fruit is like that 

 of the Summer Francreal — 

 soft, juicy, and refreshing — 

 not having the buttery char- 

 acter of a Doyenne. The 

 color and spotting of the wood 

 also resembles the Summer 

 Francreal^ but it is much 

 more vigorous and rapid in 

 growth. It even outgrows 

 the Duchesse d' Angouleme on 

 BEURRE GOUBAULT PEAR. thc Quluce, takcs the pyra- 



midal form easily, and while growing freely bears profusely. The misfortune about it 

 season of its maturity among peaches ; yet such a fruit is never unwelcome 

 Fruit — round, tapering slightly to the stalk, very smooth, regular, and uniform 



