THE PEAR. 495 



Gratioli. Oswego. 



Jaminette. Poiteau. 



Jargonelle. Pound. 



Jodoigne. Real. 



Kingsessing. Rostiezer. 



Laboureur. Sterkmans. 



Lamy. Stevens. 



Langelier. St. Michel Archange. 



Madeleine. Superfine. 



Malines. Tyson. 



Napoleon. Urbaniste. 



Orleans. Van Mons Leon Le Clerc. 



Osband White Doyenne. 



III. Pears growing on quince but better on pear stocks. 



Aremberg. Lucrative. 



Bartlett. Onondaga. 



Ete. Seckel. 

 Gray Doyenne. 



IV. Pears usually failing on quince, unless double-worked. 



Bosc. Paradise 



Dix. Sheldon. 



Dunmore. Washington. 



Gansel's Bergamot. Winter Nelis. 

 Marie Louise. 



The result is not always the same in different soils and in 

 different seasons. The Seckel, for instance, has wholly failed 

 in one year, and in another, on the same spot of ground, has 

 grown well. The White Doyenne grew finely one summer, 

 and almost totally failed the next. Some sorts which in nearly 

 all cases do well occasionally prove unsuccessful. A few 

 uniformly, in all seasons and in all soils, make a rapid and 

 vigorous growth, of which the Louise Bonne is perhaps the 

 most striking example; some others, again, invariably fail 

 (unless double-worked), the most prominent among which 

 stands the Bosc. Indeed, so averse is this variety to a union 



