PEARS. 



123 



% 



RIPENING IN JUNE. 



May Duke, Knight's Early Black, 



IN JULT. 



Black Tartarian, Black Eagle, 



Graffion, or Bigarreau, Downer's Late, 



Elton, Downton. 



The Belle Magnifique and Early Richmond for cooking, and for new varie* 



ties that promise well. 



CHERRIES THAT PROMISE WELL. 



American Amber, Governor "Wood, 



Belle de Orleans, Great Bigarreau of Downing, 



Bigarreau Monstreuse de Bavay, Hovey, 



Black Hawk, Kirtland's Mary, 



Coe's Transparent, Ohio Beauty, 



Early purple Guique. Reine Hortense, 

 Walsh Seedling. 



The Pear Tree (Pyrus communis) is considered by 

 botanists as a native of England. Many cultivated varie- 

 ties seem to have been introduced by the monks ; remains 

 of pear orchards attached to monasteries of the fourteenth 

 and fifteenth centuries being not uncommon even in Scot- 

 land, and very ancient trees of the finer dessert pears, such 

 as the Colmar and Longueville, occasionally occurring. 



The list of cultivated pears amounts to more than 600 

 names ; but the number of those truly desirable is not 

 large. We shall specify some of what are considered in 

 England the best dessert fruit, following the usual division 

 of Early and Late ; the former class being in season in 

 England in the months of August, September, and Octo- 

 ber, and the latter in November, December, and January. 

 It is only a few years since pears fit for the dessert in 

 January were known in Britain ; such as the Grlout mor- 

 ceau, the Easter Beurre and the Winter Beurre; and 

 they deserve the best attention of horticulturists. It is to 

 be premised, however, that even within the limits of Bri 



