132 NEW AMEKICAN ORCHARDIST. 



in July. This fruit is from Thomas Bloodgood, Esq., of 

 New York, firm of James Bloodgood and Co., of Flushing. 



20. BURLINGHAME. Dr. 8. P. Hildreth. [A.] 



A seedling raised by Mrs. C. Burlinghame, of Marietta, 

 Ohio. A fruit of medium size ; surface smooth, with longi- 

 tudinal depressions; of a yellow color, changing to rich 

 crimson next the sun; flesh melting, white, very juicy, 

 sugary, and delicious. Middle of July to the last of 

 August. 



21. CALEB ASSE MUSQUEE. Lindley. 



This fruit is four inches long, irregular, broadly angular, 

 and knobby ; its diameter three eighths of its length, com- 

 pressed below the middle ; the color deep yellow next ihe 

 sun, and partially covered with thin orange gray russet ; 

 flesh breaking, a little gritty, juicy, very saccharine. This 

 pear will ripen the last of August with us. 



22. *DEARBORN'S SEEDLING. [A.] 



This pear originated at Brinley Place, the mansion of 

 the Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn, in Roxbury. A seedling of 

 1818. The tree is of vigorous growth ; the fruit of medium 

 size, rounded at the crown, and regularly diminishing in 

 a parabolic manner to the stalk, which is inserted in a 

 small cavity ; the skin is smooth, thin, green, speckled 

 with russet points, and a fawn-colored blotch around the 

 stalk, which is short and curved; the skin delicate yellow ; 

 the flesh very melting, and fully equalling in flavor the 

 once famous and delicious St. Michael. The first fruit 

 was examined, and thus named, by the committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, in August, 1831. 



23. DUQUESNE D'ETE. Thompson. 

 Middle-sized ; obtusely pyramidal ; color brown or pale 



green ; beurree and good. September. [A ugust ?] 



24. EARLY BERGAMOT. Pom. Mag. Lind. [F.] 

 A medium-sized pear, of a green color, tinged at matu- 

 rity with yellow ; streaked with brownish red next the sun ; 

 of a roundish form, flattened at its base ; the flesh yellow- 

 ish white, very juicy, a little breaking and gritty, but very 

 rich and sugary. Ripe in August. 



A new fruit sent by M. Thou in to the London Horti- 

 cultural Society, in 1820. A most excellent early variety ; 

 an abundant bearer. 



