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medium size, mostly abortive, long and pointed, dark brown. 

 Ripe in October. 



58. Wilbur. 



The Wilbur pear {fig. 32,) originated in the same town as 

 the Hull, and upon the farm of Mr. Wilbur, after whom it has 



I^g. 32. Wilbur Pear. 



been named. Its merits appear either to have been underrated 

 or overlooked : specimens presented for exhibition at the Eigh- 

 teenth annual Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society last September, from the President and other gentle- 

 men, were pronounced by the committee of sufficient merit to 

 rank among first rate fruits. Like the Buffum and many 

 other pears, it is probably affected by the season, and some 

 years inferior to others : our drawing was made in the autumn 

 of 1843, from specimens received from Mr. Wilbur, and we 

 did not then consider it first rate, or we should have given an 

 accoimt of it before ; another trial of it this season, however, 

 we think, fully gives it a claim at least among the best pears. 



