THE PEAE. 835 



Pound. 



XTvedale's St. Germain. Bolivar d'Hiver. 



Winter Bell. Comtesse de Terweuren. 



Bretiigne le Cour. Duchesse de Berry d'Hiver 



Belle Ang-evine. Gros fin or long d'Hiver. 



Belle de Jersey. Union. 



Du Tonneau. Grosse de Bmxelles. 



Royal d'Angleterre. La Quintinye. 



Beaute de Tervueren, Grosse Dame Jeanne. 



Pickering Pear. Louise Boiine d'Hiver. 



Lent St. Germain. Bellissime d'Hiver, du Bui, 



Cordelier. Abbe Mougein. 



Anderson. Chamber's Large. 



Angora ? Dr. Udales Warden. 



D'Horticulture. German Baker. 



Berthebirn. Pickering's Warden. 



Bolivar. Piper. 

 Faux-Bolivar. 



The Pound, or Winter Bell Pear, valued only for cooking, is an 

 abundant bearer, and a profitable orchard crop. The trees are strong 

 and healthy, "with very stout, upright, dark-colored wood. 



Fruit large, pyriform, swollen at the crown, and narrowing gradually 

 to a point at the insertion of the stalk. Skin yellowish green, with a 

 brown cheek (yellow and red when long kept), and sprinkled with 

 numerous brown russet dots. Stalk two inches or more long, stout, 

 bent. Calyx crumpled, set in a narrow, slight basin. Flesh firm and 

 solid, stews red, and is excellent baked or preserved. 



Prairie du Pond. 



Introduced by A. H. Ernst. 



Fruit small, nearly globular, greenish yellow, with many brown and 

 green dots. Flesh whitish, moderately juicy, half melting, vinous, 

 astringent. Poor. September 



Pratt. 



A native of Rhode Island. Tree a vigorous upright grower, very 

 productive. Young wood olive brown. 



Fruit medium, obtuse pyriform. Skin greenish yellow, shaded with 

 crimson, and sprinkled Avith numerous russet and conspicuous dots, fre 

 quently patched and netted with russet. Stalk long, slender, cui'ved 

 insei-ted in a regular cavity. Calyx open, set in a broad, shallow basin 

 Flesh white, juicy, melting, briskly vinous, and saccharine, variable 

 but when in perfection of great excellence. Good to very good 

 Ripens last of September. 



Precilly. 



A Belgian Pear. Tree very vigorous, productive. 



Fruit medium to large, obovate acute pyriform, greenish yellow, 

 netted aad patched with russet, and sprinkled with brown dots. 

 Flesh yellowish white, coarse, juicy, breaking. Good for cooking. Oc- 

 tober. 



