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THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



variety. The tree is very healthy, prolific, and hardy, and may be easily cultivated in any 

 small garden. The fruit will increase in size if a top-dressing of manure is frequently given 

 the roots. The fruit is quite small, obovate, and regular in form. Skin russet green, with a 

 bright russet red cheek when exposed to the sun. Flesh yellowish white, buttery, very 

 juicy, sweet, and melting, with rich spicy flavor. It ripens gradually from the first of 

 September to the last of October, arid should be gathered from the tree when fully grown, 

 and ripened in the house. 



Louise Bonne de Jersey. This pear is known by various names, but more generally 

 by the one here given. It originated in France, and is a very vigorous, productive variety. 



This fruit is large, oblong, a little one 

 sided, pale green when grown in the 

 shade, but shaded with brownish red 

 when exposed to the sun, and dotted with 

 gray. Flesh greenish white, very juicy, 

 and rich. Ripens in September and Oc 

 tober. 



Leconte. This is an old variety, 

 originally from a cross between the Chi 

 nese Sand pear and one of our cultivated 

 varieties. It was introduced about forty 

 years ago by Major Leconte of Georgia. 

 The original tree is reported to be still 

 healthy and bearing abundantly. It is 

 extensively grown in Georgia and other 

 Southern States, where it is very highly 

 esteemed. It is a large, yellow pear, of 

 good quality, some of the specimens having 

 been known to measure ten inches in cir 

 cumference, and weigh twelve ounces. 

 The Southern Farmer s Monthly says of it: 

 The parent tree is in Liberty County, 

 Ga., sent there forty years ago by Major 

 Leconte, and is the greatest bearing tree 

 known, having borne thirty-nine bushels of 

 pears at a single crop. It has no off 

 years, but continues to bear the same 

 heavy crops every year; and has no dis 

 ease, blight, or insect destroyer up to this 

 date. The fruit of this pear is bell-shaped, 

 of a rich, creamy yellow color when ripe, 

 very smooth and fine-looking, and one of 

 the best pears we have for shipping. It 

 ripens in July, and sold in northern markets the past season for $4.50 per crate of one bushel 

 each.&quot; 



Soil and Cultivation. Although the pear may be grown in a variety of soils and 

 climate, it being widely cultivated in this country from Maine to Texas, as well as on the 

 Pacific Coast, where some of the largest and most beautiful specimens are produced, yet the 

 best results are obtained from a strong loam of moderate depth, with a dry subsoil. Pear 

 trees should never be planted in a soil that is wet for a considerable portion of the year; 



LECONTE PEAR. 



