1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FARAIER. 



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THE TYSON PBAB. 



The original tree of this variety of pears 

 grew in Jenkinstown, Pa. The fruit from 

 which our cut was drawn and engraved was 

 selected from an ample basket of the ripened 

 fruit grown in Dorchester. The tree from 

 which the fruit was plucked sprung, we under- 

 stood, from the first scion set in Massachu- 

 setts, cut from the original tree. We found 

 them to be delicious. Mr. Thomas, in the 

 new edition of his Fruit Culturist, gives the 

 following description of the Tyson. "Size 

 medium, conic -pyriform, sometimes approach- 

 ing to obovate ; bright yellow, with a reddish 

 brown softly shaded cheek, often some russet; 

 stalk an inch and a fourth long, inserted into 

 a fleshy prominence abruptly contracted from 

 the rounded neck ; basin very shallow, even ; 

 flesh of fine texture, buttery, very melting ; 

 flavor nearly sweet, aromatic, slightly per- 

 fumed, excellent. Ripens the last two weeks 



of summer. Shoots quite dark brown, erect, 

 vigorous. The tree does not come soon into 

 bearing." 



THE MICHIGAN AG^L COLLEGE. 



A few weeks since we copied as an "agricultural 

 item" a little paragraph to the effect that the Pres- 

 ident of the Michigan State Agricultural Society 

 condemned the system of instruction pursued at 

 the Agricultural College of that State. We have 

 since seen that address more at length. 



After remarking that "our farmers are to a liirge 

 extent educated^ and as a general rule the best 

 educated are the most thrifty and successful," Mr. 

 Beckwith, President of the Society, said, "frequent 

 conversations with men of good judgment in va- 

 rious parts of the State induce me to believe that 

 the time has come when something should be done 

 to rescue the College from the policy which de- 

 prives it of public sympathy and support ;" that 

 "not more than one in four of the young men who 

 graduate there embark in agricultural pursuits 

 after leaving school," and intimates that "the gen- 



