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Lackey, one dollar and twenty-five cents. To S. Driver, James 

 Upton, Augustus D. Rogers, James Eustis, and Ephraim Woods, 

 one dollar each. To David Roberts, John Bertram, N. B. 

 Mansfield, E. R. Mudge, and Samuel C. Pitman, seventy-five 

 cents each. To J. H. INichols, Wm. Stearns, Winthrop Sargent, 

 B. H. Silsbee. W. D. Pickman, and George W. Gage, fifty 

 cents each. To J. H. Phippen, Geo. Andrews, Ezra Dodge, An- 

 drew Dodge, W. 0. Barton, Samuel Kemp, John Pratt, Wm. 

 Sawyer, John K. Poor, Aug. T. Wellman, Henry Wheatland, 

 J. A. Goldthwait, Samuel Sawyer, M. L. Atkinson, F. W. Tut- 

 tle, Thomas Dixson, Rufns Slocum, Samuel T. Huse, and N. 

 B. Perkins, twenty-five cents each. 



The connnittee 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, 

 requested 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 ; Ur- 

 baniste ; Bonne Louise de Jersey, good bearer upon the Pear 

 stock, finer upon the Quince. The above require a strong, 

 rich and tenacious soil, particularly the Dix and Heathcote; 

 Bartlett ; Andrews, (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 manured, and the fruit is generally of a higher 

 flavor than when grown upon a strong clay or retentive loam. 



Winter 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. 

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