438 Pomological Notices ; 



Tree moderately vigorous, shoots, reddish brown, with whitish 

 gray spots ; leaves roundish. 



Size^ medium, about two and a half inches long, and two 

 inches in diameter : Form, nearly oval, regular, largest about 

 one third the distance from the eye, and tapering, in a swollen 

 manner, to the stem: Skin, dull yellowish green, very regu- 

 larly interlaced and speckled with russet, and much russeted 

 at the base of the stem : Stem, medium length, about one inch, 

 smooth, brown, and inserted in a shallow cavity : Eye, me- 

 dium si^re, open, prominent, set even with the surface of the 

 crown ; segments of the calyx medium length, round, reflexed : 

 Flesh, yellowish white, coarse, melting, and juicy : Flavor, 

 rich, sprightly, and excellent, with a pleasant perfume : Core, 

 large : Seeds, medium size, dark brown. Ripe in September. 



59. Heathcot. N. E. Farmer, Vol. VII. 



One of the principal objects to be attained in the establish- 

 ment of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society was the in- 

 troduction of new and superior varieties of fruit, either of for- 

 eign or native origin. Native seedlings were yearly being 

 brought forward, and some of them of such excellent qualities 

 as to induce some eminent cultivators to deny their origin, and 

 to assert that they would probably prove foreign sorts, as if 

 our own climate could not produce a fine pear. Even the late 

 Hon. Mr. Lowell, with all the enthusiasm and energy with 

 which he labored, for many years, in the cause of Horticultu- 

 ral improvement, and whose talents and zeal will ever have our 

 admiration and respect, was slow to admit, as late as 1828, 

 that our climate had produced but two really fine pears. In 

 the N. E. Fo.rm.er of that date is an article under the signa- 

 ture of a " Roxbury Farmer," upon new varieties of fruits, 

 from which we extract the following: — "It is thirty-three 

 years this season, since I turned my attention to Horticulture, 

 and I am not able to recollect any valuable table pear, the 

 evidence of whose origin in this country is to be deemed un- 

 questionable, except the Seckel, and a pear raised by Mr. Jo- 

 honnot at Salem [the Johonnot,] not to be elevated to the first 

 rank, though very desirable : a small winter pear, probably 

 native, and said to be good, on the estate of Mr. Lewis, at 

 Roxbury, [the Lewis] ; a very pleasant summer pear, said to 



