120 George the IVth Peach. 



Dix. (Native.) This variety may be placed among the 

 very best pears in the country. At some future period the 

 Dix will be as well known, and as much esteemed, as the 

 Williams's Bon Chretien {Bartlett). 



Dearborn's Seedling. (Native.) Fruit small, but very 

 fine flavor. 



Heathcote. (Native.) This variety may be placed among 

 the best. The present season, we found it little, if at all, in- 

 ferior to the Saint Michael, {Doyefme blajic.) 



Andrews. (Native.) A pear of great merit; it will be 

 extensively cultivated as it becomes better known. 



Tyson. (Native.) Though last on m}'' memorandum, not 

 least in my estimation. This fine variety originated at Jen- 

 kinstown, near Philadelphia, some fifty years ago, and al- 

 though it may be classed among the best, it did not find its 

 way into the State of Massachusetts until the year 1S35, or 

 1836 ; when scions were sent by Dr. James Mease, of Phila- 

 delphia, to the Hon. B. V. French, ofBraintree, with an assur- 

 ance that the Tyson would prove equal to the Seckel. Mr. 

 French gave a part of the scions to various cultivators, and, 

 among the recipients, was William Oliver, Esq., of Dorches- 

 ter, who grafted the scions received into the leading branch of 

 a fine healthy tree. In the year 1841 or 1842, and, for some 

 two or three succeeding years, Mr. Oliver presented specimens 

 of the Tyson pear at the rooms of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society. We were present and partook of the first 

 specimen that Mr. Oliver presented ; and have continued to 

 notice the pear, from year to year, until the past season. We 

 now rank it, as we have ever done, among the best summer 

 pears. 



Roxbury, February llth, 1847. 



Art. YIII. George the IVth Peach. By W. R. Prince, 

 Flushing, L. I. 



I HAVE been anxious, for several years past, to solve the 

 mystery which has hnng over this fruit, and at the same time 



