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We know of no other description elsewhere. '' Very 

 good." — Fruit Committee of Cincinnati horticultural Society. 



Early Sugar. Color, green to yellow; form, pyri- 

 form ; size, 3 ; use, table; texture, white, very saccharine 

 or sugary, a little gritty ; quality, 3 ; season, July. 



Remarks. — Only valued for its earliness. 



Early Butter of Indiana. Color, whitish yellow; 

 form, obtuse pyriform ; size, 2 ; use, table ; texture, white, 

 sugary, buttery, juicy ; quality, 2; season, July. 



Remarks. — '' Not identical with any I have seen else- 

 where." — A. H. Ernst. Tree, a long time coming into 

 bearing. — There is a fruit near Newport, Kentucky, a 

 seedling, which is a pretty good small earh^ pear, gener- 

 ally v\])Q in July, which, just at a particular period in its 

 maturity, and just before it rots or mushes in the core, is 

 a pretty passable Summer fruit, although somewhat harsh 

 and a little astringent at most points of its ripening. It 

 bears well and is a healthy tree. It sells at about three 

 dollars per bushel, chiefly on account of its earliness. 

 One year pai^t of the crop was ripe before the 4th of July. 



Early Bergamot. Unworthy — very poor. 



Early Catherine, or Early Rousselet. Unprofitable — poor. 



EASTER BEURRE, with several synonymes, as Beurre 

 Gris d' Hiver Noiiveau, Pater Noster, Doyenne de Printemps, etc., 

 etc., etc. Color, yellowish green, with russet spots ; form, 

 globular, obtuse pyriform ; size, 1 ; use, table ; texture, 

 juicy, melting; quality, 1; season, December to March. 



Remarks. — Requires a rich, warm soil, and some care 

 in ripening, one of the arts not generally well understood, 

 and owing to the want of good houses for preservation 



