60 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1876. 



*Orpheline d' Enghien (Glou Morceau) : Second size, very melting, 

 juicy, siigaiy, and delicately perfumed. Eemarkably fine. 



Pratt : First size, melting and very delicious here. It is not so in all 

 soils. 



St. Michel Archange : First size, very melting, very juicy, perfumed 

 and sugary. Remarkably fine. 



Souvenir du Congr^s Pomologique : Second to first size, melting, 

 juicy, sugary, rich, and delicious. 



Sheldon : Second size, very melting, juice most abundant, sugary, 

 aromatic and delicate. Remarkably fine. 



Seckel : Third size, nearly, if not the most delicious of all Pears. 



Thompson : Second size, one of the finest Autumn Pears, delicious. 

 Remarkably fine. 



Tongrds : First size, a noble and truly delicious, beautiful fruit. Re- 

 markably fine. 



Mr. Scott says that the " Early Pears should have preceded the above, 

 " but I had not proved them sufficientl}^ as they ripened. The thought 

 " struck me after I had housed all my fruit and arranged them numeri- 

 " cally. On looking at them I thought I might never have such another 

 " chance of proving them : having before my eyes over 800 sorts, I at 

 " once determined to test every one of them, and the fist sent is the best, 

 " or what are considered the superior sorts. I tested many others, but 

 " considered them inferior, and determined to admit only the best. I 

 " know, however, that they will not all be best, in every kind of soil ; 

 " and that many of those I have rejected would prove superior to some 

 " of those enumerated." 



This table for November is reproduced in very limited measure : 



Althorpe Crassane : Second size, a delicious, hardy, English pear, that 

 bears enormously. 



Belle de Noel : Second size, a delicious sort, ripe from October to 

 January, 



Bezi Esperen : Second to first size, melting, very juicy, sugary and 

 aromatic. 



Beurr^ Berckmans : Second size, juice excessive, with a delicious and 

 refreshing flavor. 



Beurr^ Delaunoy : First size, melting and delicious, juice plentiful, 

 with a very exquisite flavor. 



Beurrd Gendron : First size, melting and delicious, ripe from October 

 to June, and resembling Chaumontel in everything but flavor. 



[*This Pear would be at least six weeks later in Worcester. But as the Blight bids fair to extermi- 

 nate the variety, the date of its maturity cannot much matter.— E. W, L.] 



