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FOIi MARKET CULTIVATION ON QUINCE. 



pear-stock have scarcely produced a specimen fruit. From each 

 of those on quince, two or three bushels of pears have been gathered 

 in a single season. 



The fruit is delicious in flavor, highly perfumed, melting, and 

 without any of those serious faults possessed by some varieties, 

 such as rotting at the core, cracking, or cankering. The pear is 

 very smooth, often glossy, ripening to a pale, greenish yellow, 

 with light russet spots : form obovate, with slightly hollowing sides 

 near the neck. It is very broad at the calyx end in proportion, 

 with a wide, deep basing, stem long, and set in a deep hollow. 

 The wood is of a peculiar light grayish color, without the shading 

 or tintinor of other varieties on the sunny side. 



St. MichaeL 

 Butter Pear. 

 Berealo. 

 White Benrre. 

 Yellow Butter. 

 Doyenne 

 Yirfralieu. 



White Doyenne. 



Poire de Simon. 

 Deans. 

 Snow Pear. 

 Pine Pear. 

 Poire Monsieur. 

 Valencia. 

 Doyenne Blanc. 



Benrre Blanc. 



Common Doyenne. 



Kasserbrine. 



Butterbrine. 



White Autumn Beurre. 



"Warwick Bergamot. 



Poire de Seigneur. 



It is with some hesitation I admit this in the list ; but its great 

 excellence, abundant crops, and the hardiness of the tree, compel 

 me to allow it a place, but with the sad qualification that it can- 

 not be fruited in perfection, with any tolerable certainty, any 

 where on the Atlantic Coast. It was Mr. Downing's opinion, 

 that its failure was the result of the exhaustion of the alkaline 

 salts of the soil. But this does not prove to be true, for the soil 

 best supplied with these elements will no more produce perfect 

 Vergalieus than the poorest soil. The tree grows vigorously. 



like burnt leather, cracking into irregular fissures, becoming 

 totally unfit to eat. 



On the Quince, however, it is often obtained of great excellence. 

 But it has not been sufficiently tested to pronounce with certainty 

 on its uniform success : and the tide of opinion latterly seems 

 entirely opposed to it. 



The disease manifests itself principally in the region of large 

 bodies of water — the ocean and fjreat lakes. 



