74 Pear-G)'owing in " Egypt." 



acquaintances. Without fault as a tree, with high, refreshing, vinous flavor, 

 most graceful form, and inimitable waxen finish of skin which' fastens atten- 

 tion, it promises with some growers to supplant the Bartlett. 



Flemish Beauty does not give satisfaction here. The leaves fall pre- 

 maturely from the tree, and the fruit rots prematurely at the core. Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey is more largely set than any other dwarf, but has an 

 uncertain standing. It often casts its leaves, and is frequently astringent, 

 and seems to need rich soil, high culture, and thinning of fruit, to be uni- 

 formly excellent. It can be relied on for great crops ; and, when rightly 

 grown, will be profitable. White Doyenne is found in every orchard ; but 

 it cracks so frequently, as to forbid its extension. Duchesse d'Angouleme 

 has received great attention, and, when well grown and severely thinned 

 out, is truly the " queen of pears," if great size constitutes a queen. My 

 own taste, however, prefers a smaller and more comely queen. Beurre 

 DiEL, grown on our high hills, cracks badly, and is astringent ; but on 

 lower and richer ground, as at Villa Ridge, it attains very great perfection, 

 being in all respects a pear of the very first class. The Onondagua is a 

 noble and worthy pear, but sometimes rots at the core. 



But the pear which promises at present to fill its season the most com- 

 pletely, and occupy much space in our orchards, is Beurre d'Anjou. 

 When well grown, we neither want nor need a better thing. Following it 

 closely, but filling a long season, and filling it with a delightful sweetness, 

 which is long and fondly remembered, comes the Lawrence, without any 

 peer, in the months of November and December. 



For the winter months, I cannot speak with much certainty of any thing 

 but Easter Beurrk. This most excellent and valuable pear, which cannot 

 get sun enough in your stormy New-England clime to mature its rich juices, 

 seems to be as much at home with us as on the sunny hillsides of its native 

 France. Our long, warm autumns give it plenty of tin-ie to ripen ; and it 

 maybe too early yet to speak decisively on this point : yet it seems, so far, 

 to be free from that inconstancy which it has shown in tlie North and East. 

 A very high Western authority regards this as our most valuable variety. 

 If we can grow good Easters, can we grow too many ? and need we be 

 anxious about any other winter-pear ? Parker Earle. 



South Pass, Dec. i, 1867. 



