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Colmar. Winter Bergamot. — A good pear ; in per 

 fection from November to F'ebruary. 



Holland Bergamot. — Greenish yellow colour, mar- 

 bled with russet; flesh juicy and high-flavoured; 

 keeps till May, and succeeds well grafted on the 

 quince. 



Saint Germain. — This is a large, green fruit, at 

 maturity rather 3vellowish ; flesh juicy, paccharine, 

 slightly acid, and delicious. It is an old and cele- 

 brated fruit, ripening in November and keeping till 

 March. 



Pound Pear, Black Pear. — This tree is a great 

 bearer. Fruit coarse, but good baked in winter. 



The cultivation of winter fruit has been but little 

 attended to as yet in this country ; but a few of the 

 late varieties of pears in every garden or orchard 

 will be found a great acquisition. 



The best method of cultivating pears is to bud or 

 graft on pear-stocks. They will grow well on the 

 apple-stock, but in this state they are not durable, 

 perishing in a few years. On the quince-stock the 

 pear succeeds well ; and this mode of production is 

 indispensable where dwarf trees are required. As 

 the borer more frequently attacks the quince than 

 the pear, to avoid this insect, and yet secure the ad- 

 vantages of the quince-stock in retarding the circu- 

 lation and growth, and increasing the productiveness, 

 the pear-stock is first grafted with the quince, and 

 then, a year or two after, the quince is grafted with 

 the pear, leaving an inch or two of the quince-stock 

 to dwarf the inserted pear. 



PERRY PEARS. 



The cultivation of the pear for the conversion of 

 its juice into Perry has not been adopted to any 

 considerable extent in this country. Alcoholic li- 

 quors and cider have been the substitutes ; and the 

 latter will probably remain so. We shall therefore 

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