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Snow Apple, Seaver Sweet/Winter. Plums— viz. : 

 Coe's Golden Drop, Purple Prune, Orleans, Prune 

 d'Ag-en. Peaches— Crawford's Early, Old Mixon. 



From Samuel Walker, Roxbury, eighty-two va- 

 rieties of Pears— viz. : Andrews, Ananas, Angora, 

 Belle et Bonne, Boucquia, Belle et Bonne de Hee, 

 Berganiot (Gansel's,) B. Hampden's, Beurre d' 

 Aremherg, B. Brown, B. Capiaumont, B. Diel, B. 

 Duval, B. Easter, B. Ranee, B. Golden of Bilboa, 

 B. d'Anjou, B. Piquery, Bezi Vaet, Bicknal, Bon 

 Chretien (Williams's,) Broom Park, Chaumontel, 

 Chaptal, Colmar d'Ete, Champagne, Colmar d'Au- 

 tomne, Comte de Lamy, Columbia, Crassane, Cras- 

 sane, (Winter,) Crassane Althorp, Dix, Doyenne 

 White, D. Gray, D. Rouge, D. Dore, Duchessc 

 d'Angouleme, Dunmore, Delices de Joeloigne, 

 Epine Dumas, Eyewood, Flemish Beauty, ion- 

 dante d'Automne, F. Van Mons, Figue, I . de Na- 

 ples, Fourcro}', Gilogil, Gendesheim, Glout Mor- 

 ceau, Hacon's Incomparable, .Tohonnot, Lawrence, 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey, Messire Jean, McLaugh- 

 lin, Monarch (Knight's,) Moor-fowl Egg, Martin 

 Sec, Napoleon, Ne plus Meuris, Pacquency, Passe 

 Colmar, Queen of Low Countries, Rousselette de 

 Rheims, Rousselette, Seckel, St. Germain, St. Giiis- 

 lain, St. Mesmire, Swan's Egg, Stone, Tyson, Ur- 

 laniste. Van Mons Leon le Clerc, Verte Longue 

 b'Automne, Voix aux Pretres, Winter Nelis, Wil- 

 diams's Earl}^, and two varieties unknown. 



From Josiah Lovett, of Beverly, twenty-six va- 

 rieties of Pears — viz. : Althorp Crassane, An- 

 drews, Beurre Bosc, B. Diel, B. d'Amalis, Gan- 

 sel's Bergamot, Catillac, Dunmore, Flemish Beau- 

 ty, Fondante d'Automne, Fulton, Great Citron of 

 Bohemia, Harvard, Golden Buerre of Bilboa, Ja- 

 lousie, King Edward, Knight's Monarch, Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey, McLaughlin, Marie Louise, Ma- 

 dotte d'hiver, Pitt's Prolific, Summer Franc Real, 

 Urbaniste, Winter Nelis, Williams's Bon Chretien. 



From Otis Johnson, Lynn, sixty-three varieties 

 of Pears — viz. : Angleterre, Brown Beurre, Beurre 

 d'Aremberg, B. d'Amalis, B. Bronzee, B. Diel, 

 Buffum, Bleeker's Meadow, Bezi de la Motte, 

 Belle et Bonne, Calebasse, Catillac, Gushing, 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, Doyenne blanc, Dix, 

 Echasserie, Epine d'Ete, Easter Beurre, Flemish 

 Beauty, Frederick of Wurtemburg, Franc Real 

 d'Hiver, Glout Morceau, Gilogil, Harvard, Henry 

 IV., Hacon's Incomparable, Hericart, Jalousie, 

 Johonnot, Lewis, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Law- 

 rence, Moccas, Marie Louise, Martin Sec, Marquis, 

 Napoleon, Princess of Orange, Passe Colmar, 

 Prince's St. Germain, Pope's Russet, Rousselet de 

 Rheims, R. Panache, Seckel, Saint Ghislain, Uve- 

 dale's St. Germain, Urbaniste, Valee Franche, 

 Verte Longue, Vicar of Winkfield, Winter Nelis, 

 Washington, Williams's Bon Chretien, and seven 

 kinds unknown. Grapes — Black Hamburgh, White 

 Chasselas, White Muscat of Alexandria, Zinfendal. 

 Two varieties of Apples. Four varieties of 

 Peaches. Four varieties of Plums. 



From Joseph S. Cabot, Salem, Sixty-six varieties 

 of Pears— viz. : Althorp Crassane, Andrews, Beur- 

 re Diel, B. d'Aremberg, B. Meise, B. Curtet, Bas- 

 ket, Bon Chretien Fondante, Louise Bonne de 

 Jersey, Bezi de la Motte, Belle Esquermes, Gan- 

 sel's Bergamot, Bocquia, Gushing, Capiaumont, 

 Catillac, Capucin, Gompte de Lamy, Croft Castle, 

 Columbia, Chaumontel, Capshcaf, Cross Pear, Co- 

 lonel's Winter, Doyenne d'Hiver, Duvivier, Easter 

 Beurre, Enfant Prodige, Fulton, Fig Extra, (Van 

 Mons,) Fondante Rouge, Flemish Beauty, Fortu- 

 nes, Great Citron of Bohemia, Gendesheim, Golden 

 Beurre of Bilboa, Henri Quarte, Hericart, Jalousie, 



Long Green, Lewis, Urbaniste, Long Green of 

 Euroi)e, Messil d'Hiver, Muscadine, Maria Louise 

 nova, Paradise d'Automne, Pacquency, Princess 

 of Orange, Poire Raineux, P. Gerande, Queen of 

 Low Countries, Rousselet Precoce, St. Andre, 

 Summer Rose, Surpasse Virgalieu, St. Giiislain, 

 Seckel, Seedling Maria, Surpasse St. Germain, 

 Sucre Vert, S])ence, from Rivers, Smith's Penn- 

 sylvania, 'Ihompson, Winter Nelis, Wilkinson. 



From Thomas Dowse, Cambridge, four dishea 

 of Bartlett, and tliree of Gansel's Bergamot Pears. 



From Josiah Gilmore, by G. L. Gilmore, New- 

 ton, Apples — Blue Pearmain, Bellflower, Blush 

 Apple, Egg Apple, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Lady 

 Ai)ple, Roxbury Russet, Spitzenberg. Pears — 

 Flemish Beauty, Seckel. 



From Jolin M. Ives, Salem, Pears — viz.: An- 

 drews, Bartlett, Beurre Remain (?), B. Bosc, Belle 

 Lucrative, Bezi de la Motte, Gushing, Columbia, 

 Flemish Beauty, Fulton, GoUlen Beurre of Bilboa, 

 Harrison's Fall Baking, Hacon's Incomparable, 

 Jalousie, Long Green, Washington, Winter Nelis. 

 Apples — a superior late Apple from Stratliam, N. 

 H. ; a fine tender Sweet, Essex county variety. 

 Plums— Green Gage, Reine Claude Violet, Red 

 Gage of Downing, Sharp's Emperor. Peach — 

 Ives's Early Melacoton. 



From 1. Fay, Cambridgeport, Pears — William's 

 Bon Chretien, Capiaumont, Chaumontel, Easter 

 Beurre, Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Louise bonne 

 de Jersey, Napoleon, >t. Michael, Seckel, and one 

 unnamed. Peac'nes — Goolcdge's Favorite, Jaques' 

 Rareripe, Lemon Rareripe, Owen's do., Pike's 

 Rarerijie, Red and Yellow Rareripe. 



From Parsons <^.- Co., Flushing, L. I., and 

 Brighton, Mass., Apples— thirty-two varieties, 

 viz: Autumn Bough, Court of Wyck, Esopus 

 Spitzenburg, Fallawater, Franklin's Golden Pip- 

 pin, Fall Harvey, Fameuse, Fall Pi])pin, Federal 

 Pearmain, Golden Russet, Herefordshire Pear- 

 main, Hawthornden, Killiam Hill, Long Stem, 

 Michael Henry Pippin, Marigold, Morris Sweet- 

 ing, Maiden's Blush, Newtown Pippin, Newton 

 Spitzenburg, Nonsuch, Pennock's, Pickman's Pip- 

 pin, Rambo d'Ete, Sciieenmaker. Seek-no-further, 

 Tolman's Sweeting, Trimmer's Russet, Vande- 

 vere, Willis' Sweeting, Yellow Bellefleur. Pears 

 — Lawrence, from the original tree. 



From George R. Russell, West Roxbury, Grapes 

 — Black Hamburg, Cliasselas de Fontainebleau, 

 Muscat of Alexandria, Royal Muscadine, Red 

 Frontignan, S)-riaii, Wilmofs Black Hamburg, 

 White Frontignan. 



From Thomas Liversidge, Dorchester, Black 

 Hamburg Grapes. 



From M. H. Ruggles, Fall River, Pears— Bart- 

 lett, Durfee, Hull, Philips, Seckel, Wilbur, all fine 

 specimens. 



The following note from Mr. Ruggles, accom- 

 panied these Pears : — 



Lurfce, or Shawl Pear. — This variety originated 

 on the farm of George Durfee, in Tiverton, R. I. 

 The trunk of the parent tree is some eight or ten 

 inches in diameter. It maj^ be thirty or forty years 

 old. It is a good bearer. 



Wilbur Pear. — Originated on a farm owned by 

 William Wilbur, in somerset. It has been under- 

 going a change in some trees — the fruit is much 

 larger and the flavor not as good as when the fruit 

 was smaller. 



Phillips Piar — Originated on the Phillips farm in 

 Newport, R. I. ; or I found it there, and have been 

 able to trace all synonyms to that stock. The tree 



