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THE PEAR. 



seeds, long, ovate, acute pyriform ; Jlesh, white, buttery, juicy, sweet. 

 Season, January to May. 



BUFFUM. 



American. Native of 

 Rhode Island. It is 

 very successful wherever 

 grown, admirably adapt- 

 ed to standard orchard- 

 ing, an upright, strong 

 grower, reddish brown 

 shoots, always product- 

 ive of fair, even-sized 

 fruit ; not, however, of 

 more than second-rate 

 quality. 



Fruit, medium, ob- 

 long, o b o V a t e ; color, 

 brownish green, becom- 

 ing yellow, bright red, 

 suffused in sun ; brown 

 dots and a little russet ; 

 stem, half to inch long, 

 slight depression ; calyx, 

 with short recurved seg- 

 ments ; bast?!, round ; 

 core, rather small ; seeds, dark brown ; Jlesh, white, buttery, sweet. 

 Season, September. 



Black Worcester. 



Black Pear of Worcester, | Parkinson's Warden, 



Iron Pear. 



A valuable and profitable variety for marketing and cooking pur- 

 poses ; shoots dark olive, diverging ; tree, hard}", vigorous. 



Fruit, large, obovate, oblong ; color, dull green, with numerous 

 marblings and specks of dark iron russet ; stem, stout, in a slight de- 

 pression ; calyx, rather small ; Jlesh, firm, coarse, austere. Season, 

 November to February. 



BoussoucK. 



Doyenne Boussouck, 

 Doyenne Boussouck Nouvelle, 



Providence, 

 Plymouth. 



Foreign. A variety, we believe, first introduced to this country 

 in 1841, by Wrn. Kenrick ; tree, vigorous ; wood, reddish brown, 



