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Williams, of Roxbury, some years since. Mr, Manning, who 

 was always eager to possess every new and fine fruit, added 

 it to his great collection, and, in a brief account of it, in an 



Fig. 37. Williams'' s Early. 



excellent article, in one of the early volumes of our maga- 

 zine, describing one hundred and twenty-nine varieties of 

 pears, (Vol. III. p. 12.) he states that it " deserves to be 

 placed in the first class of table pears," — a rank accorded to 

 but few of our American varieties. Wood reddish brown. 



Size, medium, about two and a quarter inches long, and 

 two in diameter: Form, obovate, largest near the crown, 

 tapering roundly to the stem, where it ends rather obtusely : 

 Skin, fair, smooth, light yellow when mature, broadly cov- 

 ered with bright crimson on the sunny side, the base of the 

 stem often encircled with pale russet, and the surface covered 

 with scattered greenish and brown specks : Stem, long, about 

 one and a quarter inches, smooth, stout, slightly fleshy at 

 the base, and inserted Avithout any cavity, with a small pro- 

 jection on one side : Eije. large, open, and slightly sunk in a 



