AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



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Rochelle" pear, and perhaps also by other names in different 

 localities ; but the name given above is to be preferred, as de- 

 scriptive of its most obvious peculiarity when carefully and 

 properly ripened. 



11. STEVENS'S GENESEE. 

 Fig. 236. 



Tree of great vigor, young shoots dark gray, diverging, sub- 

 ject to sour-sap blight. A good bearer. 



Fruit above medium, round, obovate, light yellow, a little 

 rough. Flesh white, half buttery, and juicy. 



Flavor fine rich aromatic. Ripens in September. 



This pear is said to be a native of Livingston county, and is 

 one of the most valuable of the new pears which Western New 

 York has furnished. It belongs to the class of Bergamot pears, 

 of which hitherto there have been few good ones, except Gan- 

 sell's. It, however, requires guarding against the risk of sour- 

 sap blight, to which it is subject. See page 261. 



