344 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



tree assimilate to the St. Germain, and we should think it a 

 seedling from that old pear, probably impregnated with the 

 Doyenne blanc. The wood is of a dull yellow color. 



Size, medium, about two and three quarters inches long, 

 and two and a half in diameter : Form, roundish obovate, 

 full at the crown, ending obtusely at the stem : Skin, fair, 

 slightly rough, yellowish green, becoming lemon yellow when 

 mature, very broadly tinged with bright red on the sunny 

 side, and covered with rather large, irregular shaped, pale 

 russet specks : Stem, medium length, about one inch long, 

 rather stout, pale brown, dotted with gray, slightly curved, 

 and inserted with scarcely any cavity on the obtuse point : 

 Eye, rather small, open, and slightly sunk in a very shallow 

 basin ; segments of the calyx broad, irregular, and partially 

 recurved : Flesh, yellowish white, coarse, melting and juicy : 

 Flavor, rich, sweet, perfumed, and excellent : Core, large : 

 Seeds, medium size, very pale brown. Ripe in December. 



111. BuRLiNGAME. N. E. Farmer, Vol. IX, p. 82. 



The Burlingame pear {^fig. 31,) is one of the pears early 

 brought to notice by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 through their honorary member, Dr. S. P. Hildreth, of Ma- 

 rietta, Ohio. In the fall of 1830, he sent a drawing and a de- 

 scription of this variety to the Society, and requested that, as 

 it was a seedling, they should give it a name. In accordance 

 with Mr. Hildreth's request, they called it the Burlingame, in 

 honor of Mrs. Burlingame, of Marietta, a daughter of the late 

 Rufus Putnam, who saved the seeds from pears eaten on the 

 way from New Jersey to Ohio, as long ago as 1790. Owing 

 to the tree having been planted in an unfavorable soil and 

 situation, it did not bear till the fourteenth or eighteenth year ; 

 from that time, up to 1830, it continued to be a regular bearer, 

 and free from the blight which affects the pear trees in the 

 west. 



Scions were sent to the Horticultural Society in the spring 

 of 1831, and distributed among the members ; but, from some 

 cause, it does not seem to have become generally knov/n, and 

 even our pomological writers appear unacquainted with it. 

 Kenrick mentions it in his last edition of the American Or- 



