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Jamlnette. Only "good." Fruit above medium. 



Jean de Witte. Color, pale yellow ; form, obovate ; 

 size, 1 to 2; use, table; texture, melting, juicy, vinous; 

 quality, 1 ; season, October to December. 



Eemarks. — One of Yan Mons. Tree of moderate 

 growth. 



Jersey Gratiole. Color, greenish yellow; form, round- 

 ish oblate, obovate, angular ; size, 1 ; use, table ; texture, 

 . white, crisp, sugary, vinous; quality, 2; season, Sept. 



Eemarks. — Tree moderately vigorous. Great bearer. 

 Succeeds on quince. Described and commended in Hovey's 

 3Iagazine. 



JoHONNOT. Size, 2 to 3 ; use, table ; texture, crisp, a 

 little melting, juicy ; qualit}", 2; season, September. 



Eemarks. — An Eastern fruit, from Massachusetts. Tree 

 moderately health}'. Productive in the Western soils. 



Josephine de Mallncs. Color, yellow, russety ; form, 

 roundish obovate ; size, 2 ; use, table ; texture, juicy, melt- 

 ing, vinous; quality, 1; season, November and December. 



Eemarks. — Xot an early bearer. Best on pear. To 

 render trees more fruitful, the author has witnessed the 

 advantage of taking off a ring of bark from the branches 

 of unfruitful pear trees, and he has no hesitation in advis- 

 ing the practice, as it has not been found to injure the 

 trees so operated upon, on which it has been repeated for 

 several successive years. But it should be performed on 

 branches that are not exposed to the full rays of our fer- 

 vent sun. Many persons object to the experiment, fearing 

 to injure the branches ; but what is the value of unpro- 

 ductive limbs. The author has seen, in the month of May, 

 a ring taken off of the bark of two principal .branches. 



