The Howell Pear. 



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pear I ever saw, and I have been at your annual fair, where 

 two or three hundred varieties were exhibited. It is also a 

 pleasant agreeable fruit, but it lacks the flavor and richness 

 essential to a pear of the first quality. 



Mr. Howell was a worthy excellent old gentleman, some- 

 what eccentric in his habits and manners ; but, although he 

 left no children to transmit his name to future generations, 



Fig. 12. Howell Pear. 



having lived and died a bachelor, yet the Howell pear will 

 put his name and his praise in the mouths of thousands of 

 his fellow-men for many years to come. S. D. P. 

 New Haven, Deceinber 1848. 



Our description of the Howell pear (^fig. 12,) is as follows : — 

 Size, large, about three inches long, and two and a half in 

 diameter : Form, obovate, inclining to pyramidal, regular, 

 rather full at the crown, and tapering to the stem : Skin, fair, 

 smooth, lemon yellow when mature, Avith a slight tinge of 

 blush on the sunny side, and regularly covered with brown- 



