IDS WESTERN PRUIT BOOK. 



Upper Crust. Size, 3 ; use, table ; texture, buttery, 

 melting; quality, 2; season, July. 



Eemarks. — A South Carolinian. Tree, healthy, mode- 

 rate grower. Fruit size of Dearborn's seedling. 



URBANISTE, or Beurre Pi.cqucry, etc. Color, pale yel- 

 low, with gray dots, and some russet lines ; form, obovate 

 pyriform ; size, 2 ; use, table ; texture, white, yellowish at 

 core, butter}', melting, vinous; quality, 1 ; season, Septem- 

 ber and October. 



Eemarks. — Good. Tree, moderately vigorous and 

 hardy ; well suited to Westerji soils. Xot an early bearer, 

 but when it bears, produces regularly and abundantly. 

 Should be extensively' planted. Fruit keeps well. 



UveJale St. Germain. Poor. For baking only. 



Valle Franche. Form, round, obtuse, turbinate ; 

 size, 2; use, table; texture, poor; quality, 3; season, 

 July or August. 



Eemarks. — Exhibited to Cincinnati Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, by A. H. Ernst, August 18, 1855. Committee on Fruit 

 considered it "quite a second, or even third rate Summer 

 pear." " Deficient in flavor and character." — A. H. Ernst. 



Van Assche. Color, light yellow; form, obovate ob- 

 tuse ; size, 1 ; use, table ; texture, buttery, melting ; qual- 

 ity, 1 ; season, September and October. 



Eemarks. — New pear. Worthy of general trial. Has 

 proved fine, and handsome, with A. H. Ernst. 



Van Buren. Eather poor. Good for baking. 



