Pomological Notices. 449 



space, and prevented ns from doing so. As the season is now 

 at hand when amateurs will be making their selections of 

 trees for fall planting, we shall now note down what we have 

 on pears, and defer our remarks on other fruits until another 

 time. 



During no year since the introduction to notice of our na- 

 tive pears by Mr. Downer, in 1829, have we known so many 

 American sorts of equal merit to have been made known. 

 The Swan's Orange, Reid's Seedling, Osband's Summer, 

 Pratt, Moyamensing, Haddington, Kingsessing, Ropes, Ra- 

 pelje, all good, and some of them unsurpassed, have been, 

 in this period, brought to the notice of pomologists. Add to 

 these, several foreign kinds, whose merits have been fully 

 established, and the acquisitions of the last year or two have 

 been of great importance and value. 



Swanks Orange. — This has been so fully noticed in our 

 account of it, (p. 67,) that we shall only remark that this 

 splendid variety must hold the highest rank among pears. 



K/ili^'ht's Seedling. — A Rhode Island seedling, raised in 

 Cranston, and first exhibited at the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society in 1835, when it was pronounced fine. Since 

 that time, however, it has been but little seen, and is compar- 

 atively a very new fruit. In size and appearance, it some- 

 what resembles the Belle Lucrative, and is nearly, if not 

 quite equal to that delicious variety. We would suggest that 

 it should be called Knight's R. I. Seedling, as many suppose 

 it to be one of the late Mr. Knight's productions. 



Pratt. — This is also from Rhode Island , it is a good sized 

 pear, rather above medium, of oblong obovate form, with a yel- 

 lowish green skin, thickly dotted with russet, and of excel- 

 lent quality, though not equal to Knight's Seedling. 



Osbaitd's Summer is an early variety, ripening about the 

 period of the Bloodgood, and fully equal, if not superior, to 

 that sort. The size is rather larger than the Bloodgood, in 

 shape similar to the Muscadine, with a pale yellow skin, dot- 

 ted with green, and tinged with red on the sunny side. The 

 original tree is growing in Macedon, N. Y. 



Rapelje's Seedling. — Dr. Stevens of New York has just 

 placed in our bands a specimen of this new pear, which is 

 stated to have originated near Astoria, L. I. Itisofmedi- 

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