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WOllCESTER COUN'TY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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REPORT OX PEARS. 



Georgk Jaques, Chairman; Joiix Milton Earle, D.Waldo Lincoln, 

 John C. Ripley, Jonathan Grout. 



In respectfully submitting their report, the Committee would congratulate 

 the Society on the extent and excellence of" the display of fruit which it was 

 their especial province to examine. Compared with that of any of the twenty 

 preceding years, the Pear Department of the Annual Exhibition of 1860, was 

 larger in the number of the contributions, choicer in the value of the varieties, 

 and richer in the size and beauty of the specimens. What is still more grat- 

 ifying, is the fact that this, the finest and most select show of Pears ever seen 

 in New England outside of Boston, was entirely the product of this city and 

 of nine or ten towns in the immediate vicinity. 



The following Httlc tabular comparison, extending back eight years, will 

 give an idea of the progress which has been made hereabouts in tlie cultiva- 

 tion of this amateur fruit of the Northern States : 



The average for the eight years is 82 contributors and 768 contributions. 



The size of the best single.specimen of each of the leading vai'ieties, at the 

 recent exhibition, as compared with the size of such specimens last year, is 

 shown in the following table, which was carefully prepared by Mr. Lincoln, a 

 member of the Committee : 



Wciijht in 1859. '60. 



07.. 07,. 



Andrews, 6A 7i 



Beurre d' Anjou, 10 11^ 



" Clairgeau 12i 14i 



" Gris d' Hiver, 7A 10 



" Montgeron, 5 6J 



" Bosc, 8 9V 



" Diet, lli 15 



" Langelier, 5 SJ 



Belle Lucrative, 8 lOA 



Buffuiu, 5 5J 



Doyenne du Cornice, 6i llj 



" Boussock, 9 14 



Weujht in 1859. '60. 



07,. OZ. 



Duchesse, 12 13i 



Easter Beurre, 7 10 



Fulton 4 5 



Flemish Beauty, 12 13 



Gansel's Bergamot, 5 7i 



Glout Morceau, 9 12i 



Henry IV 41 5 



Paradise d'Automne, 5 6i 



Seckel, ;U 4f 



St. Michael, 6 6| 



Urbaniste, 9 10 



Winter Nelis, 5i 5J 



Three varieties, only, of acknowledged merit, were exhibited this year, that 

 were inferior to the specimens in 1859, viz : Duchesse of Orleans, Sheldon and 

 Zephyrin Gregoire. 



The following is the weight of a few other leading varieties, exhibited this 

 year, of which no specimens were shown in 1859 worthy of particular notice. 

 Several of them have probably seldom, if ever, been surpassed : 



