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cuttings. J. J. B.) It grows up like a Lombardy Poplar, 

 and bears very young and abundantly, and the fruit is 

 large, greenish, with rose tinge in extra specimens, with 

 a flavor not " best " by any manner of means. It may 

 do well to can and evaporate, and its size may sell it in 

 northern markets as a table pear. It does well as a 

 standard only, and Parry says, if bud scions are taken 

 from trees budded on the quince to propagate the 

 LeConte pear, such trees will do no good. This, he says, 

 is true of all the oriental pears ; don't propagate them 

 from dwarfs. I have watched the LeConte this year on 

 the Peninsula. As to growing, bearing young, bearing 

 large crops, and showing fine large fruit, the tree proved 

 to be all that is claimed for it, but as to the fruit, fine 

 specimens as they were, not a single one of all that I 

 opened but proved to be unsound at the core, and unfit 

 to eat. If left on the trees they did not ripen well and 

 then the softening started, too, at the core. It also 

 blossoms early, and may, on that account, be delicate. I 

 don't condemn this fine looking pear on the result of one 

 season, but I advise peninsula growers not to invest 

 largely in it until it has been further proved. Standard. 



Bergamotte (Cadet.) — A good pear, buttery, sweet, 

 rich, pale yellow, medium size. Standard. 



Wilmington. — A seedling of Dr. Brinckle. Tree 

 grows slowly, medium size fruit, green, yellow, russet, 

 aromatic flavor. 



