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seeds, which she planted on her return home. I have 

 counted on this farm, by this woman's planting, about forty 

 trees. There are two or three trees, the fruit of which very 

 nearly resembles each other. The rest of the trees produce 

 only ordinary pears, — some of them very ordinary. The 

 family derive a considerable income from these pears, as 

 this sort of fruit is rather scarce with us. Their more 

 ordinary kinds sell pretty well to those whose taste for 

 fruit is not much cultivated, and also for preserves. Some 

 of the sorts are well suited for this use. I have resided in 

 Brunswick twenty-six years, and have nearly as long been 

 acquainted with this pear. As this is the only good pear 

 for the market in this neighborhood, I supply myself with 

 it for three or four weeks, by having them gathered and 

 brought me before they soften. I have thought them as 

 delicious thus ripened in the house, as on the trees." 



Fulton Pear. 



From Mr. Greenleaf's trees scions were disseminated, 

 and the variety is now to be found in all good collections 

 of fruits. The peculiarity of its gradual ripening we have 

 already noticed, in the account of our visit to Mr. Mannins^'s 

 garden in 1839 (Vol. V., p. 407.) Every fruit that falls 

 from the tree, mellows in the house; this greatly enhances 

 its value as a market fruit, as it may be picked when quite 

 hard and transported many miles without injury. Our 



