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ly round, 

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 ;sert pear, 

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: Warsaw, 

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ired leaf, 

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colder climate of Wilna. At Warsaw, it is one of the few that 

 have stood the test of trying winters, and one of the best for plant- 

 ing in open exposure. 



Fondante des Bois is a synonym of the Belle de Flandres, or, 

 Flemish Beauty. In the catalogue of the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety of London, published in 1842, it proved so. Another pear, 

 however, introduced from the continent, proved different, and yet 

 the description of it is not like this. Different climates work wide 

 differences in the appearance and quality of fruits. Still, Mr. 

 Budd says, surely not Flemish Beauty nor anything like it. I, too, 

 have known the Flemish Beauty in different climates, have grown 

 it in quantity in Southern Pennsylvania in a garden I once owned 

 there, have eaten some bushels of it in my lifetime, and cannot 

 believe it to be the same as this Fondante des Bois. 



Considering the value of this pear in Poland it ought to be 

 introduced. 



FuNTovKA. — ^li'his IS said by some to be the hardiest of the 

 German or Polish pears. It has been scattered about a good deal 

 and seems to maintain better health in the colder districts than any 

 other. It bears a large pyraform fruit, good for cooking, but 

 whether fit for dessert I do not know. Keeps till November. 



Grumkower Winterbirne. — This pear has been long known 

 in Eastern Prussia, and about eighty years ago was sent westward, 

 and in 1857 was recommended for general cultivation. It is 

 spoken well of at Warsaw as a tree that has stood th3 test of trying 

 winters, not merely in the sheltered city gardens, but in exposed 

 places. It is a long pyraform pear, green, but mottled light and 

 dark, with but slight color ; the flesh is tender, buttery, but some- 

 what lacking in sweetness, not equal to Flemish Beauty I would 

 say. It is in season in October and November, and the tree re- 

 quires moist soil. 



Liegel's Winterbirne. — This, I am told, has been planted 

 very largely in the colder parts of Bohemia, among the mountains, 

 where it has become a large export product. It is sent in large 

 quantity to Berlin as a winter dessert pear. It is, says Mr. Lauche, 

 probably of Bohemian origin, and in 1853, at Naumberg, it was 



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