226 VAKIETIES. 



ADDITIONAL LIST. 



This second selection of pears is intended to include those hav- 

 ing most of the properties requisite for the first list, hut ■v\hich are 

 deficient in some important particular. Some are too new to be 

 pronounced upon ; some are equal to those of the first list in certain 

 localities, but not in all ; and generally, they possess too great 

 excellence of flavor, size, and beauty, to be passed over. 



They are all necessary to a complete amateur collection, and 

 the market-fruit raiser should have at least specimens of every 

 kind, to test their fitness for his locality. Any of these varieties 

 may be pronounced best, when the cultivator has the soil and 

 climate which bring them to their highest perfection, and they 

 suffer no disparagement by being placed in this list ; for they may, 

 in localities adapted to ihem. prove superior to any in the first list. 

 It must be remembered that this selection is made more according 

 to a marketman's calculations of profit and loss, than an amateur's 

 enthusiastic admiration. 



Varieties proved to be adapted to the Quince, will be noted in 

 the descriptions. Where nothing is stated in regard to the stock, 

 it may be understood that the pear-stock is best for that variety, 

 or that it is not sufficiently tested on the Quince. 



Andrews. 



8 E P T E 51 



An excellent variety, as far as I have seen, proving a most 

 hardy tree, a regular and early bearer. The fruit is said to rot 

 occasionally at the core : I have never found it to do so. According 

 to Mr. Downing, it never suflers from blight, and I believe does 

 not on most soils. A large number received by me from a nursery 

 located on a low, alluvial soil — in fact, a drained mill-pond bed — 

 blighted badly. Some of my friends who have planted it, are 

 disappointed in its flavor and general character. The fruit is long 



