346 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



beautiful pears. But, as an orchard fruit on the pear stock, it 

 cannot be planted with any certainty of a good crop. On 

 the quince it succeeds far better, and upon this stock we 



Fig. 19. White Doyennl 



have had trees loaded with fair specimens, while, on adjacent 

 trees, in precisely the same soil, nearly every pear has been 

 so much blighted as to be worthless. Mr. Kenrick, and 

 some other writers, long ago denounced the White Doyenne 

 as " an outcast," and though his expression may seem a 

 strong one, still, practically, for New England, it is correct, 

 until at least some method may be discovered to check the 

 decay of the fruit. 



The cause of the cracking of this pear has been a fertile 

 subject of discussion among pomological writers, some con- 

 tending, with Mr. Knight's doctrine, that the variety had 

 become worn out ; others, that it was caused by the attack of 



