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popular as the Louise Bonne of Jersey. Knight's Monarch 

 will, we think, become one of the most desirable winter 

 pears. Compte de Lamy has not been properly appreciated ; 

 it is hardly up to medium size, but in flavor is surpassed by 

 scarcely any of its season ; no good collection should be 

 without it. We shall figure and describe it in our next vol- 

 ume. Broom Park, Shobden Court, and March Bergamot, 

 are yet scarcely known, and we have never yet seen a well 

 grown specimen of either of them. We have no doubt they 

 will be found very valuable sorts. The Dunmore, which 

 was considered by some only second rate, has been one of 

 the most excellent varieties we have tasted this autumn. 

 The specimens have been very large, and their rich vinous 

 Champagne character has rarely been surpassed, and scarce- 

 ly equalled, by any other kind. 



Smith's Bordenave Pear, of which we gave a brief ac- 

 count in our volume for 1848, proves to be one of the finest 

 September pears. Specimens sent us from the original tree, 

 in Hartford, Conn., have established its claims to the highest 

 place among autumn pears ; having much the character of 

 the Brown Beurre, but more sugary and melting, and at the 

 same time peculiarly refreshing and rich. It has somewhat 

 the appearance of the Beurre d'Amanlis, but is not so large. 



Sheldon Pear. — This is the name under which we have 

 received some very fine specimens from Wayne county. New 

 York. Last year, by the kindness of a friend, we received 

 a dozen or more of the pears, and upon trial we found them 

 to be among the best we had eaten ; so fine indeed that we 

 thought they must be the Gray Doyenne. Upon inquiring 

 into the history of the tree, however, which we shall give at 

 length hereafter, we found it to be another of the native 

 seedlings, of which so many have recently been described 

 and introduced to notice. It is a large sized pear, of obovate 

 form, with a smooth, greenish russet skin ; stem rather short 

 and stout ; eye very slightly depressed ; flesh yellowish, very 

 melting and juicy, with a highly perfumed and delicious 

 flavor, resembling the Gansell's Bergamot. It ripens in Octo- 

 ber. It will, we think, rank with the finest autumn pears. 



