Descriptions of three new Pears. 



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1. Beurre' Kossuth. 



M. Andre Leroy has for several years been receiving from 

 various persons many varieties of pears yet undescribed. 

 Among the number have been found several kinds of very 

 remarkable merit. One of them has been dedicated to that 

 illustrious defender of Hungarian liberty, the celebrated 

 Kossuth. The following is the description and figures of 

 the fruits of this variety, (Jig. 21,^ gathered from the same 

 tree, and yet of a form very different : — 



Tree, of moderate vigor, little branched, forming, notwith- 

 standing, a good pyramid. 



Fruit, large, three \nches long, and about the same in di- 

 ameter in the largest part : Form, turbinate, rounded at the 



Fig. 22. General Lamoriciere. 



crown, diminishing in undulations to the stem ; surface very 

 uneven, rough : Stem, two thirds of an inch long, curved^ 



