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Standard or dwarf. It came from the Lawson Farm in 

 New York State. As to quality it has been pronounced 

 only third rate by those experienced in testing the 

 eating qualities of pears, and resembles the old French 

 Jargonelle. The fruit is large and handsome, with a red 

 blush. I advise Peninsula growers to test it carefully 

 and moderately. We don't expect to get the luscious 

 perfumed pears so early in the season, yet my great doubt 

 in regard to this pear is whether or not it is fit to eat. 



Summer Doyenne. — I believe this is our most 

 profitable summer pear for the Peninsula. It bears young 

 and full, regular crops, and the fruit is small, but is well 

 colored, juicy, sweet and well flavored. I have it, it 

 ships well and it pays me well, it bligths moderately. — 

 Standarel. 



Sugar Pear. — I introduce this pear on the authority 

 of Thomas J. Shallcross, a well-known fruit grower of 

 Kent county, Maryland. 



It is the same as the Harvest Pear and ripens in 

 July. Tree grows and bears well. Fruit small, round, 

 pale yellow, brownish red tinge in the light, with some 

 brown and green dots. F lesh sweet, but rather mealy. — 

 Standard. 



Madeline. — Recommended to me by Henry H. 

 McMullen, a well known and very intelligent fruit grower 

 of New Castle Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. 



