THE P. BARRY PEAR. 



Fig. 1418.— Section P. Barry Pear. 



L^ pviiHIS is another very promising 

 new fruit, which we noticed, on 

 page 56, Vol. XIX., a pear 

 that is named in honor of the 

 late lamented president of the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society. Sam- 

 ples of this new pear were exhibited at 

 the World's Fair in 1893, in May, having 

 been kept over since 1892. It is a 

 winter pear, ripening in April, very large 

 in size, and when ripe orange yellow in 

 color, with juicy, fined grained flesh of 

 high flavor. Perhaps this will prove 

 the very pear we want for export ; a 



variety we can send to Great Britain 

 without cold storage. 



So late as August 3rd this present 

 season, we received two samples of this 

 pear from Mr. F W. Glen, of Brooklyn, 

 and it is so fine a sample that we have 

 photographed a section exact size to 

 show our readers. At first we thought 

 it like Beurre Clairgeau, kept over in 

 cold storage, for it much resembled that 

 variety in form and size. We have the 

 first samples growing on our experi- 

 mental plot this season, and will be 

 able more fully to identify the variety, 



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