APPENDIX. 473 



PEARS. 



CLASS II. New and untested. Suited to Amateur Culture, or certain 

 Localities. 



DOWNING. 



Doyenne Downing. 



Foreign. New, recently described and dedicated by M. Leroy (France) 

 to the memory of the unfortunate Downing. 



Fruit medium, roundish, irregular; green yellowish, speckled with 

 russet dots ; stem short, obliquely inserted ; flesh white, crisp, juicy, 

 sugary, lightly acidulated. Season, September. 



BARRY. 



Foreign. New. Fruit medium size, sometimes large, pyriform, irregu- 

 larly shaped ; skin rough red, spotted on the sunny side, yellow greenish 

 on the opposite ; calyx small, set in a narrow basin ; stalk obliquely in- 

 serted ; flesh white, coarse, tender at the centre, very juicy, sugared and 

 perfumed. Season, October. 



* HOVEY. 



Foreign. New. , Fruit medium size, pyriform, regular, resembles the 

 Beurre Capiaumont, skin fair, smooth, yellow, speckled and dotted around 

 the eye ; calyx set outside ; stem obliquely inserted ; flesh yellow, melting, 

 juicy, sugary, perfumed and vinous. Season, September. 



GENERAL TAYLOR. 



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Native of Maryland. The tree supposed to be the original one grows 

 near Baltimore, and is 25 or 30 years old. 



Size, under medium ; form turbinate, obscurely pyriform. broad at the 

 crown ; color cinnamon russet, becoming fawn on the exposed side ; stem 

 inserted into a very small cavity ; calyx partially closed, set in a broad, 

 not very deep, furrowed basin; core medium; seed dark brown, ovate, 

 no angle at the obtuse end ; flesh yellowish white, granular, becoming 

 buttery and melting, but somewhat gritty at the core ; flavor as high as 

 the Seckel, aroma delicious ; quality "best;" maturity, November. (Ad. 

 Int. Rept.) 



REGNIER. 



This is a variety claimed through the Pennsylvania Hort. Society to 

 have been grown from seed of the White Doyenne ; under that name it 

 has repeatedly received premiums there : hence, not having seen the fruit, 

 we conclude our description will answer for both. The growth of tree 

 is stated as its distinctive character ; being " more erect, full and rounded 

 in its top." 



