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leaves are smooth and the young wood downy; the fruit is small 

 and not very desirable. Ripe in Januaiy and February. 



71. Lewis. — A native fruit from the vicinity of Boston. The 

 trees are vigorous and healthy, producing immense crops, and the 

 fruit highly deserving of cultivation. November and December. 



72. Louise Bonne. — An old early winter pear. In some 

 seasons I have raised them of middling quality; but, taking into 

 consideration the large number of fine fruits which ripen at the- 

 same time, I have determined to discontinue the cultivation of 

 this variety. I have received, as the Long Rose-water, a pear 

 which proves to be the same as this. 



73. Passe Colmar. — One of the best and most productive of 

 the new Flemish pears. My trees bear abundant crops of fine 

 fruit every season, yet their rapid and vigorous growth is not in 

 the least impeded; the young shoots become ripe in June, imme- 

 diately blossom, and produce a second crop of fruit, of a small 

 size and oblong shape. Trees which I have received from va- 

 rious sources, as the beurre d'Argenson, prove to be the same 

 as the Passe Colmar. The fruit ripens in November, and will 

 continue in eating till February. 



74. Pound Pear. — The pear cultivated in New England un- 

 der this name is the largest, the most productive, and the most 

 desirable of all the winter baking pears. From all the evidence 

 I have been able to collect, I have no doubt that this is the 

 Treasure pear, described and figured in the old edition of Du- 

 hamel. 



75. Princess St. Germain. — Raised from seed in the nursery 

 of W. Prince & Sons, at Flushing, L. I., near New York. 

 The tree is a great bearer, but in my garden the fruit is but of 

 second rate merit compared with those of high excellence which 

 ripen at the same time. January and February. 



76. Raymond. — Anew fruit, raised from seed by Dr. Joseph 

 Wight, of Raymond, Maine, from whom I obtained grafts sev- 

 eral years since. The growth of the tree is weak, and tlie shape 

 crooked; the leaves are small; it pixiduces abundantly, and the 

 fruit is decidedly of first rate quality: it has been eaten with the 

 St. Michaels, and decided to be equal to that old variety in its 

 most perfect state. Ripe in September and October. 



77. Sabine d^Ete. — Grafts by this name have been received 

 from various sources, and they all prove the same as the old 

 English Red Cheek. The true fruit is yet to be obtained from 

 Europe. 



78. St. Ghislain. — One of the new Flemish pears. The 

 trees are healthy and grow vigorously, and the fruit is not ex- 

 celled by any that ripens at the same time, and cannot be too 

 extensively cultivated. Ripens in September. 



79. St. Germain. — I have been unable to raise this variety, 



