180 WESTEEN PRUIT BOOK. 



Salviate. Color, waxy yellow; form nearly round; 

 size, 2; use, table; texture, buttery; quality 2 ; season, 

 July or August. 



SHELDBN. Color, greenish yellow, with some russet ; 

 form, obovate, acute pyriform ; size, 2 ; use, table ; tex- 

 ture, melting, juicy, sugary, gritty at core ; quality, 1 ; 

 season, September. 



Eemarks. — Native. Tree vigorous ; tolerably produc- 

 tive. Yaluable and delicious. Nearly " best. " 



Sans Peau, or SJdnless. Color, pale greenish yellow ; 

 form, oblate pyriform; size, 3 ; use, table ; texture white, 

 juicy ; quality, 2 ; season, July or August. 



Remarks. — A high-flavored, earlj- fruit. Exhibited by 

 E. Buchanan, at the Cincinnati Horticultural Society 

 Eooms. It bears in clusters. 



SECKEL. Color, yellowish green, with red cheek, 

 smooth ; form, regular ; size, 3 ; texture very juicy, very 

 sweet, and delightfully pleasant ; quality, 1 ; season, Au- 

 gust, September, and October. 



Remarks. — From Mr. Seckel. It is though small the 

 finest pear of this or any other country. A native fruit, 

 " well adapted for the vicinity of Cincinnati." — F. G. 

 Cary. What more can be said of this superlatively choice 

 fruit? " Best grafted on the apple (a singularity), reser- 

 ving part of the apple branches to give a large size and 

 flavor.'' So says Mr. Gabriel Sleath, an experienced hor- 

 ticulturist and cultivator, and ona of the pioneers of 

 Cincinnati, in flowers and fruit, with Jas. Howarth, and, 

 to be in good company, may I be permitted to add the 

 author. Tree very vigorous and beautiful on its own 

 stock, and remarkably hardy, healthy, and luxuriant in 

 growth, and requires on its own stock a liberal use of the 



