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Salviate. Color, waxy yellow; form, nearly round; 

 size, 2 ; use, table ; texture, buttery ; quality, 2 ; season, 

 July or August. 



Sheldon. Color, greenish yellow, with some russet ; 

 form, obovate, acute pyriform ; size, 2 ; use, table ; tex- 

 ture, melting, juicy, sugary, gritty at core; quality, 2 ; 

 season, Sej^tember. 



Remarks. — Foreign. Tree vigorous ; tolerably produc- 

 tive. 



Sans Peau, or Skinless. Color, pale greenish yellow ; 

 form, oblate pyriform ; size, 3 ; use, table ; texture, white, 

 juicy ; quality, 2 ; season, July or August, 



Remarks. — A high flavored, earl}- fruit. Exhibited by 

 R. Buchanan, at the Cincinnati Horticultural Society 

 Rooms. 



SECKEL. Color, yellowish green, with red cheek, 

 smooth; form, regular ; size, 2 ; texture, very juicy, very 

 sweet, and delightfully pleasant; quality, 1 ; season, Au- 

 gust, September, and October. 



Remarks. — From Mr. Seckel, of Philadelphia. It is 

 the finest pear of this or any other country. A native 

 fruit, "well adapted for the vicinity of Cincinnati." — F. 

 G. Carl/. What more can be said of this superlatively 

 choice fruit? " Best grafted on the apple (a singularity), 

 reserving part of the apj^le branches to give large size 

 and flavor." So says Mr. Gabriel Sleath. an experienced 

 horticulturist and cultivator, and one of the pioneers of 

 Cincinnati, on flowers and fruit, with Jas. Howarth, and, 

 to be in good company, may I be permitted to add the 

 author here. Tree very vigorous and beautiful on its own 

 stock, and remarkably hardy, healthy, and luxuriant in 

 growth, and requires on its own stock a liberal use of the 



