ESSEX SOCIETY. 29 



Fruit. 



The committee of the Essex Institute have prepared a de- 

 tailed report or catalogue of the fruit shown, which is inserted 

 in the transactions. The society, by a vote of its trustees, re- 

 quested your committee to select from this catalogue a list of 

 such varieties of pears, which, in their judgment, are the most 

 desirable for general culture, to be appended to this report. 

 Having prepared a list of twenty-five varieties, all of which 

 have already been well tested in this vicinity, they submit 

 them to the society, viz. : — 



Summer Pears — Rostiezer, a German variety, of the size 

 and flavor of the Seckel ; Bloodgood, fine native fruit, requir- 

 ing a warm and rather dry soil. 



Autumn Pears — Harvard, (native fruit;) Dix do.; Seckel 

 do. ; Heathcote do. ; Fulton do., a great and constant bearer ; 

 Lawrence do. ; Beurre Bosc ; Flemish Beauty ; Urbaniste ; 

 Bonne Louise de Jersey, good bearer upon the pear stock, finer 

 upon the quince. The above require a strong, rich and tena- 

 cious soil, particularly the Dix and Heathcote ; Bartlett ; An- 

 drews, native fruit ; Buffum, do. ; Golden Beurre of Bilboa ; 

 Belle Lucrative ; Gushing, native ; Long Green ; Paradise of 

 Autumn. These sorts flourish well on a light soil well ma- 

 nured, and the fruit is generally of a higher flavor than when 

 grown upon a strong clay, or retentive loam. 



Wifiter Eating Pears — Winter Nelis; this is decidedly the 

 finest early winter pear known to us. Lewis, a native fruit of 

 fine flavor, and the tree bears annually a good crop. 



Cooking Pears — Vicar of Winkfield, a fine large fruit, of sec- 

 ond quality for eating, but still, one of the most profitable pears 

 for market ; it is a good bearer upon the quince or pear stock ; 

 the fruit is larger when grown upon a strong, rich, and rather 

 moist soil ; Catillac ; Black Pear of Worcester. 



The Winter Nelis and Seckel fruit finely, when grafted upon 

 the tops of large pear trees. The Dix and Harvard are a long- 

 time in coming into a bearing state, when budded upon young 

 stocks ; we should recommend these varieties to be placed upon 

 old and well established thrifty stocks. 



