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droops like the willow. This new and excellent pear is a 

 very great and constant bearer ; it is productive to a fault, 

 and possesses the valuable property of hanging on the 

 tree to a very late period ; and is highly deserving of cul- 

 tivation. This fruit sells very high in winter in the market. 



176. L'OKEN D'HIVER. Van Mons. Nouveau 

 Cours Complet d' Agriculture, Vol. xn. p. 132. 



Fruit oval, a little lengthened ; its transverse diameter 

 five inches ; stalk short ; eye sunk in a cavity ; skin of a 

 clear yellow, washed with fawn color ; flesh white, melting, 

 pleasant, perfumed, excellent. It ripens in March. Base. 



177. LOWELL. Mr. Knight. [E.] 



A new pear, raised by Mr. Knight, and so named by him 

 for the Hon. John Lowell, to whom the tree was sent in 

 1823. Mr. Knight observes, " Our climate is hardly warm 

 enough for it ; but in yours I think it will prove excellent, 

 and a very productive variety." 



178. MONARCH. Thompson. Mr. Knight. [E.] 

 A new pear; middle-sized; obovate; of a yellow brown 



color ; beurree and excellent, and productive. January. 

 Originated by Mr. Knight, who sent it, in 1832, to Mr. Low- 

 ell and the Mass. Agri. Soc. The Monarch, says Mr. 

 Knight, " in my estimation, and that of a great many 

 others, is without a rival as a dessert fruit, of a high musky 

 flavor. The Monarch grows so fast, and bears so well, 

 that I arn planting it for perry, convinced it will make a 

 very fine liquor. This, and the Althorpe Crassanne, will 

 not be excelled by any other varieties in your climate. 

 Both grow rapidly and bear abundantly." Until 1840, the 

 true Monarch was not known, either to America or in the 

 garden of the London Hort. Soc. ; the first kind sent by 

 Mr. Knight being thorny, and wrong, as he himself con- 

 fessed with profound regret. Early in 1841, I introduced 

 the true Monarch for the first time. 



179. NE PLUS MEURIS. Thompson. 



A fruit of medium size ; roundish ; of a brown color, 

 russeted ; beurree and excellent. November to March. 

 One of the best of late pears. The fruit is not handsome, 

 but very fine, and the tree is a very first-rate bearer. 



180. NEWTOWN VIRGALIEU. M. [A.] 



The tree grows very crooked, bending by the weight of 



