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to be the true Monarch. The same mistake occurred in the 

 distribution of the scions among Enghsh cuhivators, and it 

 was not until 1840 that the true variety was i<nown in the ex- 

 tensive collection in the garden of the London Horticultural 

 Society. It consequently is an entirely new variety in our 

 collections, the old Monarch being an inferior fruit. 



Moccas. — Another fine fruit of ]Mr. Knight's production, 

 and described at the same time as those above named. It is 

 a very large fruit, and bears well as a standard, ripening in 

 September. 



The Suffolk Thorn fruited for the first time in the garden 

 of the London Horticultural Society, in the fall of 1840. It 

 was raised by Andrew Arcedeckne, Esq., from the Gansell's 

 Bergamot. It bears well as a standard, and is of excellent 

 quality. 



MolleWs Guernsey Chaumontel. — This is a new pear of 

 great excellence, raised some time since, by the late Charles 

 Mollett, Esq., of the Island of Guernsey, but very lately 

 brought into notice. It is described as a fruit of the middle 

 size, obovate, or somewhat pyramidal, with a remarkably 

 fleshy extension of about half an inch at the insertion of the 

 footstalk, in addition to which, the footstalk is about an inch 

 in length, of medium thickness, and yellow. The eye is in 

 a shallow depression, quite open, the segments of the calyx 

 closely reclining on the fruit. The surface of the fruit is 

 somewhat uneven; the ground yellow, but in a great meas- 

 ure obscured by ferrugineous russet, sometimes equally scat- 

 tered, but often disposed in broad longitudinal stripes; flesh 

 inclining to yellow, very melting and buttery, with a very rich 

 Chaumontel flavor, but more acid and less sugary, qualities 

 which give it additional merit among the mid-winter pears, 

 which generally possess a cloying sweetness, unrelieved by 

 the slightest perceptible acidity. It is in eating in December 

 and January, but the fruit should be taken from the tree in 

 September. It grows well on the quince, and bears abun- 

 dantly. 



The following varieties are of French or Flemish origin, 

 and are said to be very superior fruits. 



The Tougard Pear. — Fruit large and beautiful, oval, of 

 a clear yellow, laved and streaked with saftVon red; flesh 

 white, very fine and melting; juice abundant, sweet, very 

 good, but not perfumed; ripens the end of September. In- 



