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We know of no other deBcription than this. "Very 

 good." — Fruit Committee of Cincinnati Horticultural Society. 



Early Sugar. Color, green to yellow; form, pyri- 

 form ; size, 3; use, table ; texture, white, very saccharine 

 or sugary, a little gritty; quality, 3; season, July. 



Eemarks.- — Only valued for its earliness. 



Early Butter, op Indiana. Color, whitish yellow ; 

 form, obtuse pyriform ; size, 2 ; use, table ; texture, white, 

 Bugarj', buttery, juicy; quality, 2; season, July. 



Eemarks. — "Not identical with any I have seen else- 

 where." — A. H. Ernst. ^ Tree, long coming into bearing. 



Early July. — A fruit near Newport, Kentucky, a 

 seedling. A pretty good small early pear, generally 

 ripe in July. At that particular jDeriod in its maturity, 

 just before it rots or mushes in the core, it is a pretty 

 passable Summer fruit, although somewhat harsh and a 

 little astringent at most points of its ripening. It bears 

 well and is a healthy tree. It sells at about three dol- 

 lars per bushel, chiefly on account of its earliness. 



Early Bergamot. Unworthy — very poor. 



EAELY CATHBEINE, or Early Eousselet, see Rous- 

 selet Hatif. 



EASTEE BEUEEE, with several synonymes, as Beurre 

 Gris d' Siver Nouveau, Pater Noster, Doyenne de Printenvps, etc., 

 etc., etc. Color, yellowish green with russet spots ; form, 

 globular, obtuse pyriform ; size, 1 ; use, table ; texture, 

 juicy, melting ; quality, 1 ; season, December to March. 



Eemarks. — Eequires a rich, warm soil, and some care 

 in ripening, one of the arts not generally well understood, 

 and owing to the want of good houses for preservation 



