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Buffum. — A New England pear, and a good one 

 on standard or quince. Fruit medium size, deep brown, 

 yellowish-green color and reddish and russetty, sweet, 

 juicy, and of high flavor ; and I can recommend it to 

 peninsula growers for field-culture, especially as a dwarf, 



Louise Bonne, (de Jersey). — Best as a dwarf only. 

 A very good pear on some soils. From experience I 

 discourage its planting on the penninsula, in field-cul- 

 ture. It don't pay to ship, but evaporates very well. 



Boussock. — A Belgian tree, grows well on the penin- 

 sula, but. from my own experience, I don't recommend 

 it for field-culture for profit. My trees are standards, 

 fourteen years old. 



d'Anjou. — A magnificent pear, and does best on 

 quince only ; on a competative examination, before the 

 National Pomological Society, I think this pear received 

 more points for distinctive marks of merit than any 

 other pear. It was introduced into this country by 

 Marshal P. Wilder. It is late, and of course the ripen- 

 ing of it is one of the important points. The tree is 

 vigorous, fruit large, color green-russet-reddish and 

 brown ; flesh white, semi-coarse, melting, juicy and 

 perfumed. The north competes with the peninsula too 

 strongly to plant too many of these pears. 



Bosc. — A magnificent pear, and when ripened, as 

 have been specimens presented to me by Samuel M. 



