FOR AMATEUR CULTURE. 



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one little tree, two years planted, this season yielded forty-three beauti- 

 ful specimens. Fruit, larfj^e, oblonfr, ovate pyriform, greenish, becoming 

 greenish yellow, with stripes and patches of dull thin russet, sometimes 

 red cheek in sun ; stem, variable, fleshy at base ; calyx, small, open ; short 

 segments; flesh, melting, juicy, "very good." October. 



DUNMORE. 



^ Foreign. A good grower and early bearer on pear roots, requires rich, 

 high culture ; shootsslender, erect, brownish slate color. Fruit, large 

 to very large, (our drawing made from an unripe specimen,) oblong obo- 

 vate, greenish, dotted and speckled with brownish red russet, patches o! 

 rough russet near calyx; when not fully ripe, daik green specks under- 



