154 Pomological Notices. 



long ago as 1806, when scions were brought from that State, 

 by Judge Atwater, of Canandaigua Size medium ; form 

 irregular pyramidal ; skin fair, pale yellow ; stem rather long ; 

 flesh white, fine, melting and buttery, saccharine, high fla- 

 vored, and excellent. Ripe in September. 



Tea. — Under this name a very handsome pear was ex- 

 hibited at New York, from New Haven, Conn. It so much 

 resembled the White Doyenne, both in taste and appearance, 

 that the members of the Congress who tasted it, pronounced 

 it that fine old pear. But, from what we can learn from 

 our correspondent, S. D, Pardee, Esq., it would seem, how- 

 ever great the similarity of the two, to be quite distinct ; as 

 the White Doyenne cracks, and is worthless, where the trees 

 are growing in the same garden as the Tea, which invariably 

 produces fair and excellent fruit. Mr. Pardee has kindly 

 promised to look up the history of the tree, and ascertain, 

 if possible, its origin. Size, medium ; form, roundish obo- 

 vate ; skin, yellow, tinted with red ; flesh, melting, juicy 

 rich, sugary, high flavored, and excellent. Ripe, the last of 

 September. 



The following account of several varieties of pears, some of 

 them quite new, we find in the Gardener's Chronicle^ com- 

 piled by Mr. R. Thompson, from the " Bulletin de la Societe 

 d' Horticultural Practique, du Rhone, for 1849." Several of 

 the varieties we have already noticed, or briefly described ; 

 but as showing the state of Pomological information, even in 

 France, we copy it entire, adding a few notes, in course : — 



This contains descriptions of many old and new sorts pre- 

 sented for exhibition ; and as these descriptions appear to 

 have been carefully made, by M. C. Fortune Willermoz, the 

 following extracts will probably be acceptable to those inter- 

 ested in the cultivation of pears : 



Ananas. — Middle-sized, short-pyriform, surface somewhat 

 uneven ; stalk thick ; about half an inch in length, oblique : 

 skin smooth, soft, of a golden yellow, with reddish dots ; 

 flesh pale yellow, very fine, melting, full of sugary juice, per- 

 fumed. Season, end of September, and beginning of Octo- 



