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to it in quality Avas sufficient to give it the highest reputa- 

 tion. Quite unlike the White Doyenne, it yet had an 

 equally high rank ; its character being that of a brisk, vinous^ 



» Fig. 20. Brown Beurri. 



sprightly fruit, while that of the former was a sweet deliGious 

 sort. But from causes unknown, like the Doyenne, the- 

 fruit is liable to crack, and in the same localities, where the 

 latter does not succeed, the Brown Beurre is nearly worth- 

 less. In Boston and in crowded cities, in the western part 

 of Massachusetts and in Western New York, the fruit is 

 still fair and beautiful, and in this condition it yet maintains 

 all its former claims to excellence. As a pear for orchard 

 cultivation the same remarks we made respecting the White 

 Doyenne apply to this. But planted in warm sheltered 

 gardens, the trees trained as pyramids or espaliers, or upon 

 walls, the most luscious fruits are produced. In the garden 

 of J. P. Gushing, Esq., of Watertown, where several trees are 



