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GARDENING FOE THE SOUTH. 



flavor. Georgia — September 20th to October 20th; New 

 York, November to January. Tree of moderate growth, 

 very healthy; an early and abundant bearer. Far the 

 most desirable pear of its season. 



Fig. 246— LeConte Pear (after S. H. Rumph 



Easter Beurre. — Fruit large, obovate or obtuse-pyri- 

 form; skin yellowish-green, sprinkled with large russet 

 dots, and marbled somewhat with greenish-russet; stalk 

 rather stout, in abrupt cavity; calyx usually small, 

 closed, in a plaited basin; flesh white, fine-grained, but- 



