THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE- 



AUGUST, 1850. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. 1. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Pears. By the Editor. 



We have already informed our pomological friends, that, 

 in consequence of the almost entire failure of the pear crop 

 of 1849, we should not be enabled to give the descriptions 

 and engravings of many of the new varieties of high repu- 

 tation abroad, which we expected to have had in bearing last 

 season. We had, however, anticipated such an abundant 

 crop the present year that we thought we should be enabled to 

 more than make up for any deficiency of the last. To a certain 

 extent there is now the promise of a fair crop of pears, but 

 by no means anything like the quantity expected ; and unfor- 

 tunately the loss, in many instances, is among the new and 

 rarer kinds, which, only shoAving a few blossoms on small 

 trees, more generally lost the few fruits which set, than the 

 older and larger ones, where, out of the sheet of bloom, a 

 larger or smaller crop, according to soil, situation, or expo- 

 sure, is now coming to maturity. 



But among those of recent introduction, of which, by the 

 kindness of our friends, we obtained specimens last year, 

 were the Beurre Langelier and Beurre Goubault. These we 

 now have the pleasure of presenting to pomologists and 

 cultivators, and with them the Styrian, Belle Epine Dumas, 

 and the fine old pears. White Doyenne and Brown Beurre. 



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