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The Fall Pippin is an autumn apple, in perfection in Octo- 

 ber, and is mostly gone by the first of December. A few spec- 

 imens may keep longer. The skin is deep yellow, the stem is 

 three-fourths of an inch long, set in rather a shallow cavity. 



The true Pome Royal was first raised by General Putnam, in 

 Pomfret, Conn., where the fruit is now common, and much ap- 

 proved as a winter fruit. The skin, at this season, is green, but 

 in winter is pale yellowish white ; the stem is 1| inch long, in a 

 deep cavity, and the fruit is in perfection in December and Jan- 

 uary. 



The apple, marked Washington Grey,the committee think, is 

 the Cornish Gilliflower, one of the choicest winter apples, dif- 

 fering essentially from the black Gillifleur, which is but a second 

 or third-rate apple. 



It appears to the committee that the Congress apple is the ex- 

 cellent Russian cooking apple, known by the name of Alexan- 

 der. The apple, known here as the Red Streak apple, appears 

 to be the Wine apple, a very pleasant and valuable variety. 



The Westfield Seek-no-further, an old Connecticut variety, is 

 larger and higher flavored than the common sorts, and more de- 

 sirable for cultivation. 



The Early Harvest is called the Bough by some, and Juneat- 

 ing by others; it is a distinct fruit from either; the Bough 

 being one of the best early sweet, and the harvest the earliest 

 and best sour apple. The Juneating is inferior to the Harvest, 

 not quite so early, but a variety worthy of cultivation, as it is 

 early, and ripens gradually, so as to furnish fruit for four or five 

 weeks. 



It is of no little importance to have the apples, which we are 

 cultivating, rightly named ; if not, we may grow varieties un- 

 desirable, when we suppose that we have those that are choice 

 and valuable. This is particularly important to nurserymen, 

 who should be able to recommend, with entire confidence, all 

 the trees that they put into the market. 



Pears. — There were twelve plates of pears presented, of only 

 a few varieties. At the present time, the attention of the culti- 

 vators of fruit is very much turned to the pear, as aflbrding an 

 immense variety of excellent fruit, valuable at all seasons, from 



