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covering an excellent season in the market, when the Bartlett is entirely cleaned 

 out, unless kept in cold storage. It so much resembles Bartlett that it could be 

 well sold for that pear, but its flesh is essentially different, though scarcely 

 inferior. 



The pear is the product of many experiments in hybridizing conducted by 

 the late P. C. Dempsey, father of the present experimenter, and we are glad 

 that so good a fruit bears his name. The accompanying cut being taken from 

 an actual specimen gives an exact representation of a section of this pear. The 

 tree was grown from a seed of the Bartlett and fertilized with the Duchess 

 d'Angouleme. It is an upright, good grower ; foliage large, glossy, dark green, 

 resembling both parents. 



Description. — Fruit large obtuse pyriform, irregular in outline. Skin 

 smooth, green, changing to yellow as it ripens, with a slight brown tinge where 

 exposed to the sun. Stem about an inch long, stout and set lightly to one side- 

 Calyx shallow. Flesh white, fine grained, tender, buttery, almost melting, with 

 a rich, sweet, delicious flavor. As a dessert or market pear it is of the highest 

 merit. It will stand transportation to the most distant markets. Season, 

 October and November. 



THE TALMAN SWEET NOT A HARDY TREE IN ALL 



LOCALITIES. 



IGHT years ago I set out an orchard of 180 apple trees- 

 About 20 of them died the first year. The nurserymen 

 very cheerfully agreed to replace any that would die 

 the first year, at half price, which they did, but the agent 

 whom I dealt with, in replacing trees for the ones that died, 

 sent me nothing but Talman Sweet and Stump. Now those 

 Talman Sweet were set out promiscuously through the 

 orchard and proved to be the only sickly trees in the whole lot, among 30 or 40 

 different varieties of apple trees. 



They started off all right and did as well as any of the others for a few 

 years, even bore fruit and matured it in good shape ; but one or two of them 

 dies every year. One of them was planted in the vegetable garden and was 

 highly cultivated ; it was making excellent growth. I got one apple off it last 

 year, this spring it blighted and died. Out in the main orchard where they are 

 not so well cultivated, there is the same result ; they just die. 



The Stump tree does very well here, but appears to be shy at bearing, so 

 far. As for its fruit, I must say it is a very delicious apple ; it would be hard 

 to beat as a dessert apple. With me, its season is October. 



Hope, B. C. W. A. Starret. 



