THE PEAR. 



82i 



Okaxge Tulip£:e. 



Poire aux Mouches. 

 Striped Orange. 



Tuliped or Fly-Pear. 

 Great Orange. 



Fruit pretty large, oval pyrifoi-m, green, shaded in sun with brown* 

 ish red. Flesh melting, jxiice agreeable. September. (Lind.) 



Orpheline Colmar. 



One of Van Mens' Belgian Pears, as yet little kno"\vn in this coun- 

 try. Ti'ee vigorous, very fertile. Young wood dull olive brown. 



Fruit very large, pyriform, bright green, somewhat yellow, dotted 

 with gray, brown, and black, and shaded with i-ussefc, fawn on the sunny 

 side, and around the calyx and stem. Flesh whitish yellow, fine, melt- 

 ing, a little granular around the core, juicy, sweet, and perfumed. Octo- 

 ber. (An. Pom.) 



Osband's Summer. 



Osband's Favorite. 



Summer Virgalieu. 



Origin, Wayne County, N. Y. Tree moderately vigorous, upright, 

 an early and prolific bearer. Young wood I'ich yellow brown. 



Fruit small, rovmdish ovate obovate pyriform, clear yellow, thickly 

 dotted with small greenish and brown dots, with a warm cheek on the 

 side of the sun, and some ti-aces 

 of russet, particularly around 

 stalk and calyx. Stalk of medi- 

 um length, rather strong, inserted 

 in an abrupt cavity. Calyx open, 

 set in a broad, shallow basin. 

 Flesh white, juicy, melting, with 

 a rich sugary flavor and pleasant 

 musky perfume. Very good. Pi- 

 peus early in August. 



Osborne. 



Pro- 



Origin, Economy, Ind. 

 ductive and a free grower. 



Fruit medium, short pyri- 

 form, yellowish green, with nu- 

 merous gray dots. Stalk rather 

 long. Basin broad and shal- 

 low. Calyx partially closed. 

 Flesh white, juicy, brisk, vinous. 

 Hardly good. Middle of Sep 

 tember. 



Osband's Summer. 



Oswego Beurr6. 



Read's Seedling. 



Raised by Walter Read, of Oswego, N. Y. 

 and productive. Young wood olive yellow. 



Tree vigorous, haray, 



