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Tery juicy, ■with a rich vinous flavor; quality "very good;" hut 

 in our experience often very poor. 



Ttsok. — ^A medium sized Pear of great excellence and well 

 worthy of trial. It is not prohahle that the tree is any more 

 hardy than the Bartlett. It is an upright grower, thrifty and 

 healthy, does not hear fruit very young, hut bears large crops 

 when it has reached maturity. The fruit is hardly of medium 

 size, color deep yellow with a very handsome crimson cheek; 

 flesh melting, juicy, very sweet, with a very agreeable aromatic 

 flavor; quaHty almost "best." The fruit does not drop readily 

 from the tree, but will often hang xintil it decays on the branches. 

 It ripens early in September. 



Urbaniste. — Beurre Picquery. — This variety has not been 

 as generally planted as its merits deserve, and it is as yet impos- 

 sible to speak confidently of its ability to endure a cold climate, 

 yet such is the very healthy habit of the tree that we expect it 

 will be found among the more hardy sorts. It does not com© 

 very early into bearing, but when it has reached its fruiting age 

 yields large crops. The fruit is above medium size, of a paid 

 yeUow color; the flesh very melting, juicy, rich and buttery, and 

 very pleasantly and delicately perfumed; quality "very good.'* 

 It ripens in October and November. 



Vicar op Wixkfield. — Le Cure. Monsieur le CurS. — W& 

 cannot advise the planting of this variety in our climate. After 

 many years of trial and a not very limited opportunity of testing^ 

 it as grown in various places, we are compelled to say that, in. 

 our judgment, it is an exceedingly poor Pear for one that has 

 attained to so great celebrity. True, the tree is productive, and 

 the fruit is uniformly fair and handsome, and that is about aH 

 that can usually be said in its favor. Once, and only once in 

 our life, we tasted a Vicar that was really good, but happening 

 another year to intimate to the gentleman who exhibited that 

 specimen that it would be agreeable to see some more samples 

 of like quaHty, he blandly replied that such specimens were pro- 

 duced only once in a decade. "We therefore commend it to those 



