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an inch long, and one-ninth thick, inserted in a narrow, acuminate, rnsseted 

 cavity ; calyx, small, closed, set in a wide, shallow basin, with four or five 

 small fleshy elevations, at the bottom near the calyx. 



9. Dapper. — Size, rather small, two and one-eighth inches long, by two 

 and three-fourths broad ; form, roundish-truncate ; color, whitish-yellow, 

 with several crimson specks, and faintly clouded and marbled with yellow- 

 ish-green, with an obscure pale orange cheek ; stem, three-eighths of an 

 inch long, and one-twelfth thick, inserted in a medium, acuminate cavity ; 

 calyx, small, closed, set in a moderately wide, very deep basin. 



From Chas. Kessler, Esq., Reading. — A collection of fruit, embracing 

 specimens of a pear from Lower Heidelberg, Berks Co., Pa., and nineteen 

 varieties of apples, eleven of which were grown in Berks Co., and eight 

 near Dixon, 111. 



1. The Heidelberg Pear — which was supposed to be a foreign variety, we 

 did not recognize till it was cut, when it at once became known to us as the 

 Feaster. Under the name of Bleecker's Meadow, it is noticed in most of 

 the horticultural works, but its merits have not been properly appreciated. 

 And although admitted to be a native of Pennsylvania, there is no published 

 record of its history, nor any information given in any work in regard to the 

 particular locality of its origin. The Philadelphia market has long been 

 abundantly supplied with it, under the names of Spice and Spice Butter. 

 Not, however, until recently, have we been able to trace its history ; for 

 which we are chiefly indebted to Mr. Mahlon Moon, of Morrisville, Bucks 

 Co. This variety originated, about seventy years ago, with Aaron Feaster, 

 of Northampton Township, Bucks Co. Having sprung up on a piece of 

 ground used as a meadow, Mr. Feaster designated it the Meadow Pear; 

 subsequently it was named the Feaster. The original tree is still standing, 

 and continues, at the age of three-score years and ten, to bear most abun- 

 dantly. Some seasons, it has yielded five barrels of fruit, which was sold 

 for forty dollars. Although rather coarse in texture, and somewhat gritty 

 at the core, yet when properly house-ripened, it is rich, melting, delicious, 

 and in quality, " very good." Judging from the form and flavor, its parents 

 are probably the Seckel and the Bergamot. October is its period of ma- 

 turity. 



Art. IV. Obituary. 



Death of J. E. Teschemacher. — We perform a melancholy duty in 

 announcing the death of Mr. Teschemacher, which took place very sudden- 

 ly, in the cars, on the way from his residence in Medford to Boston, on the 

 8th of November. 



Mr. Teschemacher was well and widely known to all cultivators, by his 

 numerous contributions to our Agricultural and Horticultural periodicals, for 

 more than twenty years ; he was also known as the author of a pamphlet on 

 the use of guano ; and the translator of Stockhardt's Agricultural Chemistry, 

 a most valuable work, reviewed in our present volume. To our readers he is 



