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that date, he remarks, that " this variety is very excellent 

 and rose flavored. This and the Monarch will not be 

 equalled by any other variety in your climate ; both grow 

 and bear abundantly." It seems, however, from some 

 cause, that Mr. Lowell never ripened the Ahhorp Crassane. 

 Mr. Manning was the first to exhibit this variety; we 

 believe for the first time in the fall of 1841, and our draw- 

 ing {Jig. 17,) is from one of the specimens kindly present- 



Althorp Crassane Pear. 



ed to us at that time. It is fully equal, in our judgment, 

 to the character given to it by Mr. Knight. Mr. Thomp- 

 son has recommended it (Vol. VI. p. 46,) to take the place 

 of the Beurre Diel, where the latter does not thrive, and 

 Mr. Rivers also states that it approaches the Winter Nelis 

 in excellence. 



Size, medium, two and three quarter inches long, and 

 two and a half inches in diameter: Form, roundish, shght- 

 ly obovate, largest above the middle, and tapering more 

 towards the eye than the stem : Skin, pale yellowish green, 

 slightly wrinkled, with a few very minute russetiy specks, 



