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THE PEAR. 



seeds, long, ovate, acute pyriform ; flesh, white, buttery, juicy, sweet. 

 Season, January to May. 



BUFFUM. 



American. Native of 

 Rhode Island. It is 

 very successful wherever 

 grown, admirably adapt 

 ed to standard orchard 

 ing, an upright, strong 

 grower, reddish brown 

 shoots, always product 

 ive of fair, even-sized 

 fruit ; not, however, of 

 more than second-rate 

 quality. 



fruity medium, ob 

 long, obovate; color, 

 brownish green, becom 

 ing yellow, bright red, 

 suffused in sun ; brown 

 dots and a little russet ; 

 stem., half to inch long, 

 slight depression ; calyx, 

 with short recurved seg 

 ments ; basin, round ; 



core, rather small ; seeds, dark brown ; flesh, white, buttery, sweet. 



Season, September. 



BLACK WORCESTER. 



Black Pear of Worcester, | Parkinson s Warden, 

 Iron Pear. 



A valuable and profitable variety for marketing and cooking pur 

 poses ; shoots dark olive, diverging ; tree, tiardy, vigorous. 



fruit, large, obovate, oblong ; color, dull green, with numerous 

 marblings and specks of dark iron russet ; stem, stout, in a slight de 

 pression ; calyx, rather small ; flesh, firm, coarse, austere. Season, 

 November to February. 



BOUSSOUCK. 



Doyenne Boussouck, 

 Doyenne Boussouck Nouvelle, 



Providence, 

 Plymouth. 



Foreign. A variety, we believe, first introduced to this country 

 in 1841, by Wm. Kenrick; tree, vigorous; wood, reddish brown, 



