130 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST, 



Indifferent Pears, Bad Pears, or Outcasts. Those 

 marked B. are, however, good for baking. 



Brutte Bonne. Indif. *Q,. 

 Caillot Rosat. Indif. Q..J. 

 Fin Or d' Orleans. Indif. 



Q 4 



Gilogile. Bad. 0,4 

 Queen of Winter. Reine 



d'Hiver. Indif. Q.. 



St. Francis. Bad. B. d.| 

 Cluster. Outcast. 0,4 



Golden Beurre. Outcast. 84 



Z,o's Bergamot. " 84 



P/'s Bergamot. " 84 



Leggett's. ' " 84 



J?erf .Butter Pear. " 84 



CLASS II. 



NEW PEARS. 



The following list of new varieties are in part Ameri- 

 can ; a portion of them are English, and a few of French 

 origin ; but the greatest portion are Flemish, of all those 

 not otherwise noted. Many additions, and numerous new 

 kinds, mostly of Flemish origin, had been received by us 

 through the liberality of the London Horticultural Society, 

 during the years 1834 and 1835, their excellence having 

 been proved at their garden at Chiswick. Numerous 

 other varieties also have been sent us from Professor Van 

 Mons, of Louvain, during those same years. More re- 

 cently, and during the winter of 1840-1, a valuable dona- 

 tion of new pears, of superior proved kinds, were received 

 from M. De Wael, the secretary of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Antwerp, in Belgium. 



During the autumn of 1840, and while in London, I 

 used every exertion to procure all the new fruits of the 

 most renowned excellence, either from the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society, or from the first sources in 

 ivs immediate vicinity, and where all had been proved to 

 the latest day. Other new and superior kinds I also pro- 

 cured while at Paris ; and since that period, all that may 

 have arisen truly valuable, cannot fail of finding their way 

 hither, from other and first-rate sources. 



All those kinds marked J. have been very recently 



