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Jaminctir. Only "good." Fruit above medium. 



Jean de Witte. Color, greenish yellow; form, obovate; 

 size, 1 to 2 : use, table ; texture, melting, juicy, vinous ; 

 quality, 2; season, October to December. 



Eemarks. — One of Van Mous. Tree of moderate 

 growth. — IIov. Mug. 



Jersey Gracioli. Color, greenish yellow ; form, round- 

 ish, oblate, obovate, angular; size, 1 ; use, table; texture, 

 white, crisp, siigarj', vinous; quality, 2; season, Sept. 



Eemakks. — Tree moderately vigorous. Great bearer. 

 Succeeds on quince. Described and commended in Hovei/'s 

 Mirgii~!ne. Very little gritty at core. 



JoiioNNOT. — Size, 2 to 3 ; use, table ; texture, crisp, a 

 little melting, juicj'; quality, 2; season, September. 



Remarks. — An eastern fruit, from Massaciiusetts. Tree 

 moderately healthy. Productive in the Western soils.> 



JosEPiii.NE DE Malines, Color, yellow, russcty ; form, 

 roundish, obovate; size, 2; use, table; texture, juicy, melt- 

 ing, vinous; quality', 2; season, November and December. 



Remarks. — 2^"ot an early bearer. Best on pear. To 

 render trees more fruitful, the auth^' has witnessed the 

 advantage of taking ofP a ring of bark from the branches 

 of unfruitful pear trees, and he has no hesitation in ad- 

 vising the practice, as it has not been found to injure the 

 trees so operated upon, on which it has been repeated for 

 several successive years. But it should be performed on 

 branches tliat are not exposed to the full rays of our fer- 

 vent sun. Many persons object to the experiment, fearing 

 to injure the branches ; but what is the value of unpro- 

 ductive limbs. The author has seen, in the month of May, 

 a ring taken off the bark of two principal branches, 



