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and perfume than the musky fruits of Bartlett. The trees are quite as 

 satisfactory as those of Bartlett, unless, possibly, they fall short somewhat 

 in productiveness. The variety is well worth planting in collections for 

 its early, handsome, well-flavored fruits. 



Guyot was raised in the nurseries of the Baltet Brothers, Troyes, 

 France, about 1870. Within the next decade it was quite widely distrib- 

 uted in France and England where it has since been esteemed as a pear 

 of the Bartlett type. It was first brought to America about 1885. 



Tree medium in size, vigorous, upright, hardy, productive, a regular bearer; branches 

 brownish, overlaid with thick scarf-skin, marked by small, round, indistinct lenticels; 

 branchlets slender, very long, curved, with long internodes, reddish-brown mingled with 

 green, smooth, glabrous, sprinkled with raised, conspicuous lenticels. 



Leaf-buds small, very short, pointed, appressed. Leaves 2^ in. long, if in. wide; 

 apex taper-pointed; margin glandular, variable in serration; petiole 2 in. long, thick, reddish- 

 green. Flower-buds small, short, conical, plump, free, singly on very short spurs; flowers 

 open late, showy, ij in. across, in dense clusters, from 5 to 8 buds in a cluster; pedicels 

 | in. long, pubescent. 



Fruit ripens in early September; large, 3^ in. long, 2| in. wide, oblong-obtuse- 

 pyriform, irregular, with unequal sides; stem ij in. long, thick, curved; cavity obtuse, 

 shallow, narrow, slightly russeted, drawn up on one side of the stem in a prominent lip; 

 calyx large, open; lobes separated at the base, short, broad, acute; basin shallow, narrow, 

 obtuse, furrowed; skin very thin, tender, roughish; color yellow, more or less mottled and 

 with traces of russet, with a red blush on the exposed cheek; dots numerous, small, russet, 

 conspicuous; flesh yellowish-white, granular, tender, moderately juicy, sweet mingled 

 with sprightliness, aromatic; quality good. Core closed, with clasping core-lines; calyx- 

 tube short, wide, conical; seeds large, long, plump, acute. 



HOWELL 



i. Mag. Hort. 15:69, fig. 12. 1849. i. Hovey Fr. Am. 2:75, PI. 1851. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 

 210. 1856. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 510, fig. 1857. 5. Hoffy N. Am. Pom. i: PI. 1860. 6. Pom. 

 France 3: No. 105, PI. 105. 1865. 



Howell's Seedling. 7. Mag. Hort. 14:519. 1848. 



Howell is everywhere condemned by faint praise. The variety is a 

 little too good to be discarded and not quite good enough to be generally 

 recommended. Its characters in tree and fruit are faulty by reason of their 

 mediocrity. After having said that the trees are not above the average in 

 vigor, healthfulness, hardiness, and fruitfulness, it remains only to be said 

 that their spreading tops make them desirable orchard inhabitants and 

 handsome dooryard ornamentals. The fruits cannot be praised for attrac- 

 tive appearance or good quality, but they are preeminently meritorious in 

 that they are probably more often uniform in appearance, quality, and 



