UNTESTED VARIETIES, ETC. 



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HONEY. 



This is a delicious little pear, received some year since by Professor 

 Kirkland, and which we have been unable to recognize with any descrip- 

 tion published, if we except a slight note in Prince's Poraological Man- 

 ual. The tree is moderately vig- 

 orous ; wood, yellowish brown, an 

 early and productive bearer of 

 fruit, uniform in size and regu- 

 lar shape. Our drawing is too 

 small. 



Fruit, below medium, roundish, 

 tapering slightly to the stem : color 

 rich golden russet yellow, with 

 faint blush, many small red russet 

 dots, and occasional patches of 

 brown russet ; stem, rather stout, 

 uneven, without depression ; calyx, 

 with open half reflexed segments j 

 basin, shallow, little russeted ; core, 

 medium ; seeds, ovate, blackish ; 

 flesh, yellowish white, juicy, but- 

 tery, a little coarse-grained, sweet, 

 perfumed. Ripe a few days be- 

 fore Bartlett. 



HOVEY. 



Foreign. Fruit, medium size, pyriform, regular, resembles the Beurre 

 Capiaumont ; skin, fair, smooth, yellow, speckled and dotted around the 

 eye; calyx, set outside; stem, obliquely inserted ; flesh, yellow, melting, 

 juicy, sugary, perfumed and vinous. September. 



HOSEN-SCHENCK. 



Schenck's Pear, 

 Smokehouse, 



Bchenck's August "Watermelon, 

 Butter Pear. 



American. From Pennsylvania. Fruit, large, obovate, yellow, melting 

 not high flavor ; quality, variable. Last of August. 



HULL. 



American. Native of Somerset, Mass. Tree, vigorous, upright ; wood, 

 reddish brown. Fruit, medium, obovate, yellowish green, dull red, and 

 russet : stem, long ; calyx, half open ; core, large ; flesh, white, rather 

 coarse, gritty at core, juicy; "good." October. 



HUNTINGTON. 



From New Rochelle, N. Y. Below medium, ovate obovate, green with 

 a slight crimson tinge near calyx : stem, long, slender ; deep, broad, uneven 

 cavity ; calyx, closed ; basin, abrupt, dotted with a few russet circles ; flesh, 

 melting, juicy, buttery, delicate. Tree an early bearer. September. 



INCONNUE VAN MONS. 



Foreign. Best on Quince. Fruit, medium, oblong pyriform, dull, pale 

 green, traces and dots of russet ; stem, long, slender , calyx, open ; basin, 



