446 Notice of Three New Varieties of Fruit. 



tender, half-melting, and juicy: Flavor, sweet, pleasantly 

 perfumed and good : Core, rather large : Seeds, medium size. 

 Ripe the last of August and beginning of September. 



The Sterling pear, {fig. 36), is one of the handsomest early 

 pears which has come under our notice; the skin having a 

 clear waxen appearance, beautifully tinged with bright red. 

 Though only second rate, its beauty, size, and great produc- 

 tiveness will commend it to cultivators, especially those who 

 supply the market. 



2, Schenectady Catherine Plum. 



Fruit, medium size, about one 

 and a half inches, broad, and one 

 and a half long : Form, roundish, 

 narrowing rather more towards 

 the apex, which is little depressed, 

 than the base; suture rather shal- 

 low, extending half round : Skin, 

 rich deep purple, violet in the 

 shade, slightly netted on the sun- 

 ny side, and covered with a thin 

 azure bloom : Stem, medium 

 length, about three quarters of an 

 inch, rather slender, and inserted 

 in a very deep, contracted cav- 



Fig.-ii. Schenectady Cathei-ine Plum, ity ; FlesJl, greeuisll yejlow, fine, 



and very melting, separating freely from the stone : Juice, 

 very abundant, of a honied richness, and deliciously flavored: 

 Stone, small, thick, ovate. Ripe the beginning of Septem- 

 ber. 



This variety, {Jig.ST), is fully equal to the Green Gage, be- 

 ing quite as sweet, more melting, and exceedingly high-fla- 

 vored. It must rank as the best purple plum yet produced, 

 surpassing the Reine Claude Violet, both in size and excellence. 



3. JuDsoN Plum. 



F?'uil, rather below medium size, about one and a quarter 

 of an inch broad, and one and a quarter deep : Form, round- 



