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be ail excellent dessert pear, ripening in August, of large size. It is 

 known as Garber's Hybrid. Another known as the Sandwich Island 

 Pear, is mentioned by Mr. Teas, in Case's Botanical Index. It was 

 grown in Ohio from seed saved by a lady, some twenty years ago, from 

 a fruit she bouglit in San Francisco, called there Sandwich Island 

 Apple. The tree closely resembles the Sand Pear in foliage and 

 halnt of growth, while the fruit is shaped like a Eambo Apple, but 

 larger; of a beautiful yellow color and unsurpassed for canning and 

 preserving. Ilipe in September. 



Mr. Teas also mentions another pear which has been called the 

 Cincincis Pear, introduced by Mr. Smith, of Ohio, but believed to have 

 been originally imported from the South of France. He believes this 

 to be a pure Japanese Pear or seedling from it. This tree, he says, 

 has fmited for over fifteen years. The fruit ripens in September, will 

 keep for over a month, and is excellent for canning or preserving. 



All of these trees are very vigorous and healthy, free from blight 

 or disease of any kind, and Mr. Teas remarks that they are the foun- 

 dation for hopes of great things, in producing new and hardier varieties 

 of pears, and it does seem that in these we have the beginning of a 

 new race of blight-proof pears. Whether they will take kindly to a 

 northern climate, and bear without harm the rigors of Canadian winters, 

 can only be ascertained upon trial. We wish that the Fruit Growers' 

 Association had the means to import a couple of thousand trees of this 

 promising strain, and distribute one to each of its members for trial in 

 our climate. Should some or any of these crosses with the Sand Pear 

 prove to be able to endure the severity of our winters, and maintain, 

 under the strain of our below zero freezing, their immunity from 

 frozen-sap-blight, and all other sorts of blight; we have indeed in these 

 hybrids the beginning of a valuable race which shall not only be 

 exempt from that terrible scourge of our choicest pears, the blighff, but 

 which under skilful treatment will yield varieties as numerous and as 

 delicious as any of the famed Belgian sorts; and what a field for our 

 hybridists; a field where our Arnold, and Saunders, and Dempsey, and 

 Mills may build them an enduring monument, and say with 

 Horace, 



"Exegi monumentum rere perennhia, 

 Regalique situ pyramidum altiua." 



