152 Notes on some New Varieties of Fruits. 



yellow, mottled with red, with reddish specks ; calyx closed ; 

 stem long and slender ; flesh white, tender, not quite melt- 

 ing ; flavor pleasant. Ripens middle of August. 



Seedling Pear, from Mr. Tudor, of Nahant, of a rather 

 round, obovate shape, with a thick stem, three-quarters of an 

 inch long, of a yellowish green color, tinged with blush ; 

 brown specks, of medium size ; of a pleasant flavor, sweet 

 and good. Last of October. 



Beurre' Judes, of medium size, pyriform shape, very long 

 stem ; green, covered with brown spots, russet about the 

 calyx ; flesh white and melting, though not juicy, sweet, 

 without much flavor : rots at core. 



Bezi d'Esperin, a large pear, of a greenish yellow color, 

 with a little bronze in the sun, covered with brown specks ; 

 has a little russet about the stem, which is long, and set 

 rather on one side ; shape, pyriform ; flesh white, melting and 

 juicy, of a pleasant, though not high flavor ; rots at the core. 

 Season, first to middle of November. 



Galston Moor Fowl Egg is of an obovate form, flat- 

 tened or much swelled out at the middle ; above, a medium 

 size, with a stem an inch long, and curved ; of a greenish yel- 

 low color, with a little bronze red in sun ; green and brown 

 specks, with some russet about the calyx ; flesh, white and 

 tender, but not juicy, of a pleasant subacid flavor ; disposed 

 to rot at the core. Season, middle of October. 



This descriptive list of pears might be much extended by 

 very brief descriptions of several new sorts, that have for the 

 first time fruited the past year ; but as of such, opportunity was 

 not afforded to obtain, by tasting, some information of their 

 quality, all remarks concerning them will be reserved for 

 some subsequent occasion, when something more than a mere 

 statement of their form, size, color, &c., can be communicated. 



APPLES. 



But few new apples have come under the writer's observa- 

 tion the past season. Among such, with which he has not 

 before been acquainted, though to many, perhaps, already 

 well known, may be mentioned the following : — 



