158 Pomological Notices. 



Mr. Rivers, Bonne des Zees, received from M. Jamin and 

 Mr. Rivers, is, without doubt, the same as this: the descrip- 

 tion is precisely like it. — Ed.^ 



Catinka. — (Esperin.) — Fruit middle-sized or large, irreg- 

 ularly oval, turbinate, tapering towards the stalk, which is 

 slender, an inch and a half in length, reddish brown, with a 

 small, fleshy projection on one side, at its insertion. Eye 

 regularly formed ; segments of the calyx short. Skin light 

 green, changing to greenish yellow, at the maturity of the 

 fruit, sprinkled with numerous small brown dots, and washed 

 with carmine red next the sun. Flesh white, tolerably fine, 

 melting, and full of rich, sugary juice, with a Crassane flavor. 

 This handsome and excellent pear remains for six weeks, fit 

 for use in November and December. The tree is fertile and 

 very vigorous, even on the duince. 



CoLMAR d' Aremberg. — Fruit large, or very large, turbi- 

 nate, flat at the eye, diminishing considerably towards the 

 stalk, which is short, thick, oblique, deeply inserted in a 

 cavity surrounded with projections. Eye very small in com- 

 parison with the size of the fruit, placed in a deep cavity. 

 Skin green, changing to golden yellow, at the maturity of 

 the fruit, relieved with numerous russet specks and some 

 greenish dots. Flesh white, tolerably fine, melting, with a 

 very abundant sugary juice, delicately and agreeably per- 

 fumed. Ripe in November and December ; it is necessary to 

 seize the moment of its maturity ; if taken too soon, it is 

 rather sharp, — too late, it is mealy and dry. One of the 

 fruits exhibited was upwards of fifteen inches in circumfer- 

 ence. 



Wagener Apple. — This new apple, which has been 

 highly extolled for its excellence, is described, and beau- 

 tifully figured in the Transactions of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society, for 1848. It originated in Penn Yan, 

 Yates Co., N. Y., from seed carried there from Dutchess 

 county, as long ago as 1791. The parent tree is yet alive, 

 and produces " annually an abundant yield of beautiful and 



