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foliage, very healthy; the fruit is 

 borne in clusters. I counted as I 

 picked them, seven of those little 

 pears to each cluster, for about a 

 dozen clusters, but some had more 

 on, some less, of this year's crop. 

 Last year there were some branches 

 completely covered with fruit ; some 

 spaces for two feet were almost solid 

 packed with pears. I think they 

 will beat the well-known little pear 

 the Seckel. It think it well-flavored, 

 sweet, juicy, neatly shaped With a 

 short stout little stem which hangs well 

 to the tree till ripe, not apt to be blown 

 offbvwdnd. For pickling it is just the 

 thing and also for preserving or can- 

 ning, or for eating fresh it is very 

 good. I think a man could as easy 

 eat a dozen of these as he could one 

 of Clapp's Favorite. 



Please report in the Horticultu- 

 rist what you think of them. — D. B. 

 Hoover, Aliiiirn, Aug. 26th, 1889. 



Reply by Editor. 



The package of pears came to 

 hand in good order, but we cannot 

 advise their propagation, as they are 

 altogether too small to be grown for 

 market purposes, and very few would 

 plant pear trees simply for pickling 

 pears. They are about the size of 

 the Transcendent Crab. The quality 

 is very good, but so is the quality of the 

 Tyson which ripens about this time, 

 and the Rostiezer is far superior, a 

 pear hardly out of season yet, and 

 these pears, though much larger than 

 this seedling, will only command 

 about 50 or 60c. per basket, while 

 Clapp's Favorite and Bartlett, on 

 account of their fine size, sell at near- 

 ly twice that sum. In these days a 

 fruit must have some especial excel- 

 lence to be worthy of commenda- 

 tion. 



Seott's Seedling Peaeh. 



I send you by mail a seedling peach 

 grown on my grounds. Park Avenue, 

 Chatham. Please tell me if it is a new 

 variety, if not what is the name. 

 The tree is young and only bore a 

 few this year for the first. The bal- 

 ance on the tree are just ripe now. — 

 J. L. Scott, Chatham. Out., Sept. 

 i^th, 1889. 



Reply by Editor. 



The peach is a magnificent one — 

 equalling if not surpassing the Early 

 Crawford in quality, and also resem- 

 bling that popular variety in size and 

 beauty of appearance. The skin is 

 yellow with an exquisitely beautiful 

 red cheek ; flesh yellow, rich, juicy, 

 and melting, and free from the stone ; 

 well worthy of propagation. 



Wilder Early Pear. 



Among the new fruits that promise 

 well is the Wilder early pear, of which 

 a very good drawing is here given. Mr. 

 Vandeman, Pomologist of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, writes as 

 follows concerning it : 



" Among the midsummer pears there 

 is none that pleases me more than this 

 one, except that its size is rather small 

 But like the Seckel, what it lacks in 

 size it makes up in quality, although it 

 is larger than that variety. It is a 

 chance seedling, found in Chautauqua 

 Co., N. Y. The original tree was par- 

 tially grafted with scions of Buffum in 

 1870, when it was young, and would 

 never have borne any fruit except of 

 this old variety, had not three of the 

 natural branches been left. These bear 

 profusely, and the fruit, when fully 

 grown, is quite attractive. It does not 

 rot at the core. 



Size, small to medium ; shape, pyri- 

 form, bell-shaped, irregular, a little 

 angular ; surface, smooth, pale yellow 



