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FRUIT-GARDENING. 



Teinton Squash. Fruit raiddle-sized, of angular shape; 

 sldn a muddy russety green, marbled with dull orange, inter- 

 spersed with ash-colored specks. The perry made from this 

 fruit is of the very highest quality, something approaching in 

 color and briskness to champagne, for which fine samples of 

 it have sometimes been sold. 



SELECT descriptive LIST OF PEARS. 



The Ontario Pear. This variety promises well. Those 

 persons who have raised it state that the trees grow vigorously, 



and will doubtless make an excellent pear for market. It is a 

 seedling of the Canandaigua variety. 



Beurre d'x^njou. a first-rate autumn Pear, imported from 



