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At Orel, under the name of Doula Doukavoya, we find good healthy 

 trees bearing a large, but uneven-sided, very sweet pear, juicy, and 

 very nice. The same tree we saw at Simbirsk ; the same unmis- 

 takable fruit again on the Bogdanolf estates, near Kursk. A val- 

 uable pear for cold climates. 



Bezi de la Motte ( Wildling Von Motte). — In Iowa, it has been 

 stated by Swedes, that this pear grew far north in their native land. 

 At Burlington, Iowa, Mr. Avery has been very successful in grow- 

 ing what he called the Crassane Bergamotte, a pear known at War- 

 saw and in the Baltic Provinces, but said there not to be very 

 hardy. Is would now seem that Mr. Avery's trees are, as Mr. 

 Downing has positively affirmed, the true Bezi de la Motte. 



The fruit is medium, and sometimes large and tolerably round, 

 buttery, melting, and of delicate sweet flavor. Mr. Goeschke, of 

 Proskau, in his book, " Der Obstbau," says, a delicate dessert pear, 

 but needs good soil, sheltered position and favorable weather to 

 bear well. It ripens about i8th Oct., and keeps a longtime. At 

 Burlington, Iowa, this variety is promising, yet must not be ranked 

 among the ironclads. 



Deuces de Jodoine. — In the Pomological Garden at Warsaw, 

 we find one tree of this varietj^, erect in growth, leaves very dark 

 in color, thick, pubescent, and in fact just like some inferior, but 

 hardy Doulas and Glivas planted along side of it. The fruit, says 

 Dr. Hogg, of London, in the " Fruit Manual," is three inches long, 

 and the flesh is " half-melting, sweet, sugary and aromatic." All 

 authors agree that the fruit is good. The foliage of this tree will 

 not suffer from aridity of air ; if of early maturity of growth, then 

 a tree of decided hardiness. This tree is well worthy of a trial in 

 the north- 



CoNFESSBLS BiRNE is a tree with a large, close textured leaf, 

 grown in quantity in the colder parts of Silesia where the ther- 

 mometer goes down to 20 and 22. The quality of the fruit I do 

 not know. I only know that it is grown chiefly for drying. .■ ^ •< 

 ' FoNDANTE DE Bois {Hdz farbige Butterbime.) — This pear we 

 siiw bearing heavily in the garden of the Pomological school at 

 Warsaw, and in other gardens in the neighborhood ; also in the 



