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PoJiiological Notices ; 



gentleman it was liberally distributed among cultivators of 

 fruits. It is 2i first rate variety, a great bearer, and keeps 

 till February. The several descriptions of this pear, {fig. 

 IS.) which have been given by American writers, have all 



Bear re d'Arcmberg Pear. 



been copied from English publications, except Mr. Man- 

 ning's. Ours is as follows, from a superior specimen given 

 us by Mr. Wilder, President of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society, last December. 



>S'ise, medium, three inches long, and two and a half in 

 diameter : Form., obovate, full at the base, largest below the 

 middle, from whence it tapers rather abruptly towards the 

 stem, which it adjoins by a fleshy union : Slcin^ uneven, 

 thick, pale yellow when in eating, very thickly covered 

 with light russet, particularly around the eye ; the whole 

 very regularly interspersed Mnth black dots : Eye, rather 



