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placed in a smooth basin of only moderate depth. FlesTi, 

 white, half buttery, with a rich aromatic flavor, somewhat 

 like that of Gansel's Bergamot. First of September. 



173. Van Mons Leon le Clerc. 



This most noble pear is supposed to be among the best of 

 the many varieties for which we are indebted to Mr. Van 

 Mons, of Brussels. Downing gives an outline from a 

 specimen "just produced by Col. Wilder, of Boston, whose 

 standard pears are unrivaled in New England. Fruit, 

 large, oblong, obovate. Skin, yellowish, much mingled 

 with brown over nearly the whole surface and slightly 

 russeted near the stalk. Flesh, yellowish white, buttery 

 and melting, with a rich sugary flavor. Oct. and Nov." 



PEACHES. 



The list of Peaches is already sufficiently large. Mr. 

 Lindley describes 60 varieties to which we have added 16 

 distinctly and decidedly American. From the facility 

 with which seedlings are raised in this climate the catalogue 

 of names might be swelled to an almost unlimited extent. 

 We deem it necessary here to make a few observations on 

 the manner in which a recent author has treated this branch 

 of the subject. In the first place, the classification of 

 Lindley is unequaled for its elegance and simplicity, and 

 just as far as it has been deviated from, by just so much is 

 it defective. In the second place, duty to ourselves 

 and to the fruit-growing community obliges us to notice 

 here several errors that have been circulated in recent 

 publications : 



No. 61. AsTOR. 



For a correct description of this favorite peach, which 

 we had the honor of first bringing into notice, the reader is 

 referred to page 183. That part of Downing's description 

 which was not borrowed from us is very defective, and 

 seems to have been taken from an entirely different frqit, 



