PEAR*. 



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HARVARD. PR. CAT. 



Boston Epargne, or L 1 Epargne. 



L'Epergne. 



Sugar pear, of Cambridge, Mass. 



This fruit is generally fair, possesses a fine flavour, and is 

 valued as one of our best native fruits. It received its name 

 in commemoration of the founder of Harvard University, it 

 being satisfactorily established that it is a wilding of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



The branches grow upright, have thorns on them, and are 

 remarkable for the yellowness of their bark during the winter 

 and other periods when vegetation is dormant. The fruit 

 ripens about the first of September ; it is above the medium 

 size, weighing five to six ounces, and highly esteemed ; some 

 even rank it second only among our native fruits to the Seckel. 

 It is a constant and full bearer when the tree has age ; its ra- 

 pid growth preventing its bearing for four or five years, which 

 is a good peculiarity. Its excellent qualities make it deserving 

 of a recommendation to nurseries and the public, as a very 

 superior pear. It may be added, that it is in favour with the 

 market-men, selling at four to five dollars per bushel. 



GUERNSEY. PR. CAT. 

 Stevens' Genessee. 



This very fine pear is of the melting kind, larger than the 

 White Doyenne, and ripens in September. It should be ga- 

 thered as soon as the stem will separate by a clean fracture, 

 and ripened in the house, and must be eaten as soon as it be- 

 comes yellow and mellow, as it will not keep. It is said to be 

 more juicy, and much more delicious than the White Doyenne, 

 and in one case a fruit measured eleven inches in circumfe- 

 rence. The tree was raised from seed in the western part of 

 this state, and the grafts were politely transmitted to me by J. 

 K. Guernsey, Esq. of Monroe county, from respect to whom I 

 called it by the title here adopted. 



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