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(hvarf. The wood of this tree bears strong marks of decay: it 

 is a great bearer, and a very profitable market fruit. Perhaps 

 no pear shows the difference of soil and cultivation more than 

 this. Coxe describes it under the name of the Epargne and 

 Jargonelle, probably owing to seeing it under different degrees 

 of cultivation, and in different soils. Who would suppose that 

 the figui'es in Coxe and in the Pomological Magazine referred 

 to the same fruit? Yet the writer of this has raised them in the 

 same season, under all those variations of size and goodness, and 

 was at first disposed to consider them different, till a critical ex- 

 amination of the wood, growth, leaves and fruit has led to a dif- 

 ferent result. 



5. Julienne Coxe, No. 15. — This is a fine pear, a great and 

 constant bearer. The trees are healthy and growth vigorous: 

 the branches are long and bending, with large swellings at the 

 end of the shoots. It is well adapted to .the market, ripening 

 in the house gradually. I quote Coxe only, not having found 

 this pear described by any European author. It is no doubt of 

 French origin. August. 



6. Rousselet Hatif of Coxe. — This pear is remarkably fine, 

 and high flavored: it should be eaten ripe from the tree, which, 

 in some measure, renders it unfit for the market. It is a good 

 bearer, producing fruit every year, and the tree presents an open 

 and spreading top, and vigorous and healthy growth. I think 

 this cannot be the pear described by Duhainel under the same 

 name, it never having with me assumed the figure delineated in 

 his work. July. 



7. Williams'' s Bon Chretien. Synonyme: BartUtt of Bos- 

 ton. — Large, handsome and good, a great and constant bearer, 

 of vigorous and healthy growth, and one of the best either for 

 the market or private garden: ripens gradually, in August and 

 September. 



8. Summer Pranc Real Pomological Magazine. — A first rate 

 fruit. It is best ripened on the tree, which is healthy and a good 

 bearer every year. This pear m.ust be of comparatively recent 

 origin, as it is not described in the old edition of Duhamel. It 

 ripens at the same time as the Bartlett, to which it is equal in 

 every respect except its size. 



9. Imperatrice d''ete. — I received this pear from the INIessrs. 

 Young, of Epsom, England. Jt is large, handsome, resembhng 

 the Bartlett, but in flavor is only a second rate fruit. The tree 

 bears very young, and abundantly. I have not yet ascertained 

 the correctness of the name: ripens in August and September. 



10. Fine Gold of Summer Duhamel, Coxe, No. 8. — This 

 pear is small, but it is of fine flavor, and an abundant bearer. It 

 is good eaten ripe from the tree: it is probably an old variety, 



