A VALUABLE NEW PEAR. 



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tion invites their attacks. It is sometimes 

 urged against the Pippin, that it comes not 

 into bearing as young as some other varie- 

 ties of the apple. I have not found this 

 true, so far as my observation and experi- 

 ence extend, where the tree has been duly 

 cared for ; on the contrary, with me, it sur- 

 passes every other variety. It requires 

 more food, and therefore suffers more from 

 neglect than other apple trees; but where- 

 ever it is properly treated, it bears very 

 young and abundantly. I have it in seve- 

 ral varieties of soil. I have it, and the 

 Rhode Island Greening, of equal age, and 

 treated alike, ow the same soils, and the differ- 

 ence is in favor of the Pippin. The largest 

 crop that I ever saw taken from one tree, 

 at a single time, was from a Newtown Pip- 

 pin — 18 barrels of fair apples, and 7 bush- 

 els of refuse ones ! I have a tree of this 

 variety, now in fruit, from which, in 1844, 

 I gathered 16 barrels, which were sold at 

 $2 the barrel ; the quantity of refuse fruit 

 from the same tree I do not recollect ; but 

 it was sold at two shillings per bushel for 



cider. And here I will add, that the Pip- 

 pin is unsurpassed as a cider apple. Six 

 bushels make a barrel of juice, which, 

 when refined, rates first in market. It may 

 be said that the above named instances are 

 of rare occurrence, and so they are ; but 

 who ever saw a Greening, or even a Rus- 

 sett, that could " do likewise ?" If any 

 one, who may happen to read this article, 

 has Newtown Pippin trees that are unpro- 

 ductive oi fair fruit, (I say '■^fair,^^ because 

 the Pippin, from neglect, frequently pro- 

 duces cracked, blotched and unfair fruit,) 

 let him clean and dress them, (if he wish to 

 know how, I will tell him, if he apply,) and 

 he will assuredly find them productive of 

 such apples as have made, and justly, the 

 Newtown Pippin world-renowned ! 



There is a prevalent error, respecting 

 this fruit. There is but one true Newtown 

 Pippin, and that is green or yelloio; just as 

 the soil, season, or culture may happen to 



make it.* 



S. A. Barrett. 



Miltm., Oct. 12th, 1848. 



A VALUABLE NE"W PEAR. 



A VERY attractive new pear, of European 

 origin, has been proved for three or four 

 years past on the Hudson, which is yet but 

 very little known generally, though it ap- 

 pears to us deserving of a trial in all parts 

 of the country. 



This pear was sent to us and others in 

 this part of the state of New-York, some 

 years ago, by the late Robert Manning, 

 Esq., of Salem, under the name of the 

 Ananas d^ete; having, as we understood, 

 been received by him under that name 

 from France or Belgium. 



There are doubts, however, as to the cor- 

 VoL. III. 16 



rectness of this name. We do not find this 

 variety described in any continental work, 

 though it appears in some of the large 

 nursery catalogues of France and Bel- 

 gium. 



Thompson, in the Catalogue of the Lon- 

 don Horticultural Society, describes the 

 Ananas d'ete as a hroivnish-red pear, of ob- 

 tuse pyriform shape, first size, second qua- 

 lity, and ripening in September. As the 

 fruit before us is of a clear yellow, with no 

 trace of brown, we judge it cannot be the 



* Our correspondent (who is, as we know, a capital apple 

 cultivator,) is not alone in the opinion expressed in this last 

 paragraph j but is he correct ? Ed. 



