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Howell. — A Connecticut pear ; to my mind one of the 

 best and one of the worst, because I have had no luck 

 with it, and probably my Maryland soil dont suit it, and 

 I have not tried it in Delaware. It comes in rather late, 

 and does best, I believe, as a Dwarf. Mine are Stand- 

 ards. Fruit large, yellow, russetty, and a blush, if ex- 

 posed. Flesh melting, juicy, vinous. Its color is its 

 great feature, so purely white when canned, and so, with 

 canners, is a favorite. The tree inclines to blight too 

 much. 



Lodge. — From about Claymont this pear comes, and 

 doubtless had its origin in Delaware, on the property of 

 some one of the family whose well-known name it bears, 

 It is a sub-acid pear, medium size, green, brown and 

 russet colors, stalk long, and the fruit is a little swollen 

 at the point. Flesh a little gritty at first, core large, 

 good, rich flavor. A very good pear. 



LeConte. — A supposed hybrid of Chinese Snow Pear, 

 with some cultivated variety. This pear has come up 

 from Georgia with a great flourish of trumpets, and has, 

 with the Kieffer, made a charge to carry everything 

 before it. In 1856 it is said to have been sent into 

 Georgia from a northern nursery, labeled, Chinese Sand 

 Pear. It proved not to be the sand pear, but like it, 

 would grow from the cutting. (If you are planting 

 LeConte, plant none but those raised directly from 



