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NEW ENGLAND FAE^MER. 



Feb. 



THE LODGE PEAR. 



This pear is very popular in Philadelphia, 

 where it was supposed to have originated, but 

 it has been disseminated from Hartford, Conn. , 

 as Smith's Bordenave, and said to have been 

 imported with an invoice of trees from 

 France. The fruit from which our illustration 

 was drawn was raised in the garden of Col. 

 Wilder of Dorchester. 



The tree is hardy, but not very vigorous, 

 except when grafted on the leading shoots of 

 old trees, but further noi'th it does not suc- 

 ceed as well as in the vicinity of Boston and 

 Hartford. It produces abundant crops, which 

 adhere strongly to the branches during the 

 autumnal gales, and the fruit keeps well for 

 one of its season. 



The following description of this pear is 

 copied from Cole's Fruit Book : — 



Size, rather above medium, three and a 

 half inches long, including stem, by two and 

 a half in diameter ; form, acute, pyrif orm, 



broad across the middle, some specimens in- 

 clining to obovate, outline and surface a little 

 irregular; calyx, small, sunk in moderately 

 deep basin ; stem, one inch long, rather stout 

 and curved, sometimes swollen at the base 

 and set without depression ; colo7-, dull green, 

 overcast with a thin coat of russet ; JlesJi, 

 greenish white, very melting and juicy ; flavor, 

 rich, vinous, with & distinct high Brown Beurre 

 aroma; maturity, first of October; quality, 

 very good. 



Mr. Walsh's Collection of Insects. — The 

 Prairie Farmer understands that efforts have been 

 made to obtain this valuable entomological collec- 

 tion for some Eastern museum, but is anxions 

 that it should be retained at the West, and ex- 

 presses the hope that it will fall into the hands of 

 Mr. Charles V. Riley, of St. Louis, who was asso- 

 ciate editor with Mr. Walsh of the American Ento- 

 mologist, and is also State entomologist of Mis- 

 souri, and will probably now become chief editor 

 of that publication. 



