MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



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BLACK WORCESTER. 



Black Pear of Worcester, | Parkinson's Warden, | Iron Pear. 



A valuable and profitable variety for marketing and cooking purposes ; 

 shoots, dark olive, diverging ; tree, hardy vigorous. 



Fruit, large, obovate oblong; color, dull green, with numerous mar- 

 blings and specks of dark iron russet ; stem, stout, in a slight depression ; 

 calyx, rather small ; flesh, firm, coarse, austere. November to February. 



BLOODGOOD. 



American. From Flushing, L. I. The tree is a moderate grower, with 

 reddish brown, short-jointed wood ; a regular bearer. We think it requires 

 a rich, deep, warm soil to produce good-flavored fruit. Fruit, medium, or 

 below, ovate obovate, yellow, with russet marblings and dots ] calyx, open ; 

 stem, fleshy at base core, small ; flesh, yellowish white, melting ; " very 

 good." Early August. 



BON CHRETIEN FONDANTE. 



Foreign. Tree, vigorous, hardy, productive on Quince or Pear. Fruit, 

 medium, roundish oblong oval, yellowish green, brownish red in sun, and 

 much russet ; stem, medium, curved ; calyx, small, partly closed ; basin, 

 furrowed ; core, large ; flesh, white, coarse, melting, juicy, a little gritty; 

 " very good." September, October. 



BUFFUM. 



American. Native of 

 Rhode Island. It is very 

 successful wherever grown, 

 admirably adapted to stan- 

 dard orcharding, an up- 

 right, strong grower, red- 

 dish brown shoots, always 

 productive of fair, even- 

 sized fruit ; not, however, 

 of more than second-rate 

 quality. 



Fruit , medium, oblong 

 obovate ; color, brownish 

 green, becoming yellow, 

 bright red. suffused in sun ; 

 brown dots and a little 

 russet stem, half to inch 

 long, slight depression ; 

 alyx, with short recurved 

 segments ; basin, round ; 

 core, rather .small ; seeds, 

 dark brown ; flesh, white, 

 buttery, sweet. Septem- 

 ber. 



