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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Dec. 



Flesh white, fine grained and melting. Juice abun- 

 dant, sprightly and perfumed, like the old Brown 

 Beurre, but less astringent. 



To our taste there is no better pear than this. A 

 gentleman from [ndiana, a thorough lover of fine 

 fruits was in our oilice in Octobi r and picked up and 

 ate a nice old Brown Bewrre. After finishing it he 

 paid, "Well, 1 have oaten a good many of your besl 

 pears lately, but none so good ae thi I I must have 

 b few more trees of it." What would he say if he 

 had a slice of this ? 



This variety is noticed inllovey's Magazine, vol. 14, 

 page 110: — "Anew and decidedly valuable acquisition 

 to our late pears; possessing qualities similar to the 

 old Brown Be&rre, but less acid and fully as high 

 flavored. It also ripens freely, and the skin is ol b 

 rich cinnamon russet." RlVERS ays of it, (see Hor- 

 ticulturist, vol. 2, p. 476) — "In shape much like the 

 "Easter Beurre, and equal to it in size. This is a 

 most, abundant hearer as a. pyramid on the quince. 

 Flesh melting and high flavored, and ripens from end 

 of December to end of January, or later." % 



CAUSE OF THE PEAR TREE BLIGHT. 



Messrs. Editors. — Noticing in the last number 

 of the Farmer some remarks of Mr. James II. 

 Watts, on the subject of tho Pear Plight, and 

 noticing also a request that others would commu- 

 nicate their experience on the subject through your 

 columns, I am inclined to give you mine. 



I have five pear_ trees adjacent to each other, which 

 are of about twenty-five year's growth. Three of 

 them stand in a yard which has, 1 think, never been 

 cultivated since the trees were set. I have several 

 times within the last five years given them a dressing 

 of leached ashes. The other two trees are enclosed 

 in another yard which has been cultivated for a few 

 years past. They were all of them healthy, bearing 

 trees up to 1348, when four of them were struck 

 with blight— all of those in the uncultivated ground, 

 and one o th e in the cultivated. I pruned off all 

 the affected branches, and the la. -i spring they put 

 out and grew vigorously for a time, but in the month 

 of June the blight began to make its appearance 



\ which has continued, till now thel tops are 

 i ly all dead. The other tree, standing in the 



cultivated ground, and the most thrifty growing tree 

 of the five, continued healthy and vigorous. > havi 

 also a numbei of dwarf pear trees in my yard. The 

 ground has been spi 1 th< m 



every spring since tl i set. Mi I i f them 



have grown well, and are lii althy— one of I ( i i 

 lias been troubled with blight, and that the 

 growing and mosl puny tre rd. 



f had occa lion i ;■■' s I hrou, h I n rchai 

 of my neighbors in I lai t, and ol 



: bearing pear trees, I inquin d of the 



owner if his trees v ' i ted vi il h blighl — 



h nol m the least. ! lis orchard had been 



d in corn I he pai t season-, il ha 



frequently manured, plowed 



Our il, v. ith b 



soil of marl and (day, intermingled w ith !im< 

 gravel, from my ow n e» perience and > 

 [ am satisfied Mr. erro- 



ik that, a uniformly cultivated and 

 em i. hed si il, u Inch w ill keep the trees in a st< a ly 



ion will ren mo t health 



besl aide to resisl blight. F. I!. P. — Sweden, .V. 

 Y., Oct., 1849. 



ANSWERS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



Grapes.— (N. Simons, Castile.) Your se 

 Grape is a large fine variety of the wild Pi 

 quite unworthy of cultivation, in 

 pared with the huhrl/n and Catawba. A i 

 of this city, M. i>. Warner, Esq., culti 

 , brought by him from Connecticut. 



Apples. — We are indebted to Mr. Andrew Cone, 

 of Mast Bloomfield, for apples 'Make, fi- 

 ling tree . r >i> years old— first rate for cooking 

 good for eating." This is a beautiful j . How a 

 with a nd cheek, resembling the Bel/flower in . ha, •■. 

 We arc sure it is first rate for cooking, and a 

 C. says it is very productive, is no doubt v ill -.' ■'■ 

 this season. 



Mmson Sweeting. — We are indebted to 

 Jesse Storrs, nurseryman, of Marathon, N. V., 

 for a box of this delicious sweet apple. We 

 sure ii is identical with the Northern Swei ti 

 nibited at New York by Jonathan Batty, of J 

 ville — one of the very best sweet apples for fall it 

 we have seen. We will give a farther account of 

 this apple at another time. 



Pears. Oswego Beure. — We are indebted to J. 

 W. P. Allen, Esq., of Oswego, for specimens of 

 the Oswego Beurre, in perfection; and they fully 

 confirm the high opinion expressed by ourselves and 

 others in regard to the fruit. It is truly one oi 

 very host American pears. The flavor is almost 

 identical with the New Winter Brown Beurre, 

 figured in this number, and if eaten in the dark one 

 mighl suppose them the same fruit. Among these 

 specimens we find one larger than tho others, which 

 Mr. Allen says was produced froma graft on an apple 

 tree, set two years ago. It is high flavored and 

 more mature than the others. We may add that 

 this is one of the besl for pyramid-; on quince slock. 

 Mr. A. has promised us a fuller account of this fruit 

 than has yet appeare I. 



Comparative profits of cultivating Fall and 

 Winter Pears. (P. P. Lyon, Plymouth, Mich.) 

 We have nol time this month to give thi 

 tention, but will as soon as possible. 



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