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that is, the blossom of some other kind of pear, plentifully 

 provided with pollen, may be taken, and the farina dusted 

 over the best looking blossoms of the less productive tree. 



Summer and autumn pears should be gathered before they 

 be fully ripe, otherwise they will not in general keep more 

 than a few days. The Jargonelle, as Forsyth rightly ad- 

 vises, should be allowed to remain on the tree and pulled 

 daily as wanted, the standard fruit thus succeeding the pro- 

 duce of the wall-trees. In reference to the Crasanne, Mr. 

 Lindley recommends gathering the crop at three different 

 times, the first a fortnight or more before it be ripe, the se- 

 cond a week or ten days after, and a third when fully ripe. 

 The first gathering will come into eating latest, and thus the 

 season of the fruit may be considerably prolonged. It is 

 evident that the same method may be followed with the 

 Brown Beurre, Gansel's Bergamot, and any others which 

 continue only a short time in a mature state. 



The varieties, qualities, and relative merits of this fruit 

 seem to have drawn very particular attention from the 

 National Congress of Fruit-growers, at their several meet- 

 ings up to and including that in Boston in September, 1854, 

 when they adopted the following list, as including those of 

 the highest merits, viz : 



The Madeleine, Beurre d'Aremberg, 



Dearborn's Seedling, Kostiezer, 



Bloodgood, Belle Lucratif, or Fondante d'Au- 



Tyson, tomne, 



Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Fulton, 



Williams's Bon Chretien, or Bartlett, Andrews 



Seckel, Buffum, 



Flemish Beauty, TJrbaniste, 



Beurre Bosc, Vicar of Winkfield (or Le Cure), 



Winter Nelis, Louise Bonne de Jersey, 



