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NEW PEARS AND PEAR CULTURE. 



Monarch* This is " pear gossip ;" there- 

 fore I am privileged to ramble. A new 

 pear: 



Beurre Gouhault bore fruit here last sea- 

 son. It is a very handsome Doyenne-like 

 pear, about the size of Doyenne Blanc, 

 with a smooth, shining, greenish-j^ellow 

 skin ; flesh exceedingly melting, sugary, 

 and good. Ripe in September. 



Are you aware that Colmar Charney, 

 which I saw in France three or four years 

 since eaten in autumn, and which was 

 pointed out to me as a very fine late pear, 

 proves to be the Amrial, or Arbre Courbe 

 of Van Mons, — an excellent October pear ? 

 St. Marc is Urbaniste. For two seasons 

 I did not detect this, owing to the fruit of 

 one being from a tree on the quince, the 

 other from a tree on the pear stock. We 

 nurserymen, as soon as we detect an error, 

 ought to " make a clean breast and con- 

 fess." 



Episcopal is also, I strongly suspect, only 

 Forlunee. From my trees, the fruit of the 

 former was green ; of the latter, covered 

 with russet ; but the leaves and shoots of 

 the young trees made me look more closely 

 into the matter. This last year the latter 

 was excellent, — nearly as good as Beurre 

 d'Aremberg, and kept sound and good till 

 June. In the south, with you, this will, I 

 think, prove worthy of extensive cultiva- 

 tion. 



Crassane d^Hiver, (Bruneau,) or Beurre 

 Bruneaufis a handsome and delicious pear. 

 Form roundish; size No. 2. My speci- 

 mens ripened towards the end of last 

 March. They were melting, with a very 

 high vinous perfumed flavor, and were de- 

 licious. 



Mr. "Williams, of Pitmaston, has raised 

 a new Wi7iter Gansell's Bergamot. I en- 



* Of which, strange to say, from causes perfectly unex- 

 plained as yet, not a single Jine flavortd specimen has yet 

 teea grown in America. Ed. 



close his description.* This will, I think, 

 prove something out of the common way. 



Your orchardists ought to know one of 

 the most profitable pears they can plant, — 

 the Colmar d'Ete, (or Colmar Prince, and 

 Colmar d'Automne ; for such are its syno- 

 nyms.) It is one of the most rigorous grow- 

 ers of all pears on the quince ^ to which it 

 seems to unite itself without the usual 

 swelling over, at the junction of the graft 

 with the stock. Its bearing qualities are,, 

 to quote Dominie Sampson, prodigious. 

 The fruit hangs in clusters, like,. to use a 

 rural expression, " ropes of onions." I 

 know not why this pear should be called a 

 Colmar. It has not the least family resem- 

 blance to that race. It is of the second 

 size, rather long, something like the Jar- 

 gonelle, yellowish-green, with red next the 

 sun ; very juicy and refreshing, but not 

 melting, neither is it a breaking pear ; still, 

 it is very agreeable, and likely to be popu- 

 lar, as it bears carriage well. It ha& 

 ripened here, these two last seasons, about 

 the end of September. 



Among the pears of the late M. Esperen, 

 and likely to prove of much value, is the 

 Cassante de Mars. This was originally 

 named by him Bonne de Malines ; but on 

 finding that name a well known synonym 

 of the Winter Nelis, it was changed to the 

 above, which is very expressive of its qua- 

 lity. For in March, it is hard and break' 

 ing ; but if wrapped in paper and kept 

 carefully, it may be preserved till June, 

 and even July. It then becomes soft, per- 

 fumed, and very agreeable, like Fortunes 

 and other late pears. It cannot always be 

 preserved ; for in some seasons, at least in 

 this country, the hardiest and latest pears 

 will ripen prematurely. We shall perhaps 

 one day know the reason of this variation. 

 I think I have generally noticed that when 



♦ Which we will give in our next. Ed. 



