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the additional experience of four years has afforded a better 

 opportunity to test their quahty ; and we may now say that 

 the Dunmore proves to be one of the finest kinds which 

 Mr. Knight produced, excelled only, if excelled at all, by the 

 Monarch. 



Mr. Knight states, in his account of the Dunmore, that he 

 has never eaten a Brown Beurre that was better ; and Mr. 

 Thompson, in describing it, says it is as good as the latter 

 pear. It has the rich refreshing acidity of the Brown Beurre, 

 and though scarcely equal to it in its best condition, it comes 

 so near it as to rank favorably with that old and excellent 

 variety. 



The Dunmore {fig. 11) was raised by Mr. Knight, about 

 thirty years ago, but it did not attract general attention' until 

 after it had fruited in the garden of the London Horticultural 

 Society, and was described in their Catalogue in 1842. 

 Several of Mr. Knight's pears proved of such ordinary quality 

 that the endorsement of Mr. Thompson was necessary to in- 

 duce cultivators to introduce them into their gardens. The 

 mistake of sending out a wild pear for the Monarch also 

 tended to throw a doubt upon the qualities of all Mr. Knight's 

 seedlings. 



The Dunmore has now fruited in various collections around 

 Boston for four or five years, and its reputation as one of our 

 best autumn pears is well established. The tree is an erect 

 and vigorous grower, forming a pyramidal head and produces 

 abundant crops. It grows upon the quince, but not with that 

 freeness which will render it so desirable on that stock. It 

 bears rather young. Wood, dull brownish slate color ; an- 

 nual shoots, rather slender, very erect. 



Size^ Itii'ge, about three and a half inches long and two 

 and a half in diameter ; Form, oblong obovate, largest near 

 the middle, rounding little to the eye, and tapering to the 

 stem wliere it ends obtusely ; Skin, slightly rough, yellowish 

 green, somewhat russeted around the crown, rather broadly 

 tinged with brownish red in the sun, and thickly covered 

 with small greenish russet specks ; Stem, medium length, 

 about one and a quarter inches long, moderately stout, curved, 



