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AGEICULTUKAL REPORT. 



WAGENER. 



Pruit. — Size, medium; form, roundish, flattened, slightly ribbed at base; 

 color, yellow ground, mostly covered with deep glossy red, Avith stripes and 

 splashes of light red, and marked with irregular light russet specks ; stem-, 

 slender ; cavity, wide, deep ; calyx, small ; basin, broad, open ; flesh, yellowish 

 white, fine-grained, crisp, juicy, sprightly, vinous, sub-acid; core, small, oblong, 

 ovate; seeds, light brown, ovate, pyriform; season, November to March, but 

 keeps often until May and June. 



Tree, — Thrifty, healthy, upright grower, requiring careful and judicious 

 pruning until it comes into bearing, after which it needs little pruning ; young 

 wood, pale green ; old wood, dark red. Originated at Penn Yan, Yates county, 

 K. Y. An exceedingly valuable variety that has been comparatively unnoticed 

 during the past few years, but sustains a very high character whenever ti-eea 

 have come into bearing. 



PEARS. 

 BEUURfe GIFFARD. 



Fruit. — Size, medium ; form, oblong, pyriform ; color, yellowish green to 

 pale yellow ; red in the sun, with pale russet specks ; stem, medium length, 

 slender, curved ; calyx, open ; basin, shallow ; core, small, flesh white, melting, 

 juicy, vinous ; season, late in summer. 



Tree. — A healthy but straggling grower, with long, slender shoots, requir- 

 ing careful pruning while young to form it into good shape ; a good and con- 

 stant bearer, succeeding either on pear or quince roots. ¥oreign origin. 



BEURR£ SUl'ERFINE. 



Fruit. — Size, medium or above ; form, oblate, depressed, pyriform ; color, 

 yellow, slightly shaded with crimson on the sunny side, and partially covered 

 with russett, and tliickly sprinkled witli minute dots ; stem :?tout, rather long, 

 inserted without depression by a fleshy enlargement; calyx, closed; basiu, 



