PEARS. 209 



ZoAR Beauty. Stock, pear; use, table and market; 

 season, July and August. 



Beurre d'Aremberg. Stock, pear ; use, table and mar- 

 ket ; season, November to January. 



Skinless. Stock, pear ; use, table ; season, July and 

 August. 



EosTiEZER. Stock, pear ; use, table and market ; sea- 

 son, August. 



Imperial Society of Horticulture of the Shone (France), upon 



Pears. 

 We most sincerely hope that Pomologioal Sociisties may 

 continue to flourish and to labor Tinceasingly. As, some- 

 times, so much perseverance is required to completely 

 settle the true merits of any sort of fruit, the work of 

 these Societies will never cease, and but little diminish 

 ' in their hands. There will be a necessity often for some 

 reconsiderations. The very same specimen will vary from 

 tolerably good to very good, and from good to indiifer- 

 ently good, and also from being grafted on a different 

 stock, etc., etc. The different seasons will also occasion 

 them to vary much ; and sometimes, if many sorts are 

 grafted on one tree, those which have less vigor than the 

 others will become greatly deteriorated. The great varie- 

 ties of soil, climate, and exposure, will change considerably 

 the same kinds, so much so that the same fruit in one 

 locality can be hardly recognized in another. We make 

 these remarks in order to direct the attention of our read- 

 ers to the fact that the Imperial Society of Horticulture 

 of the Ehone (Trance), have communicated to the various 

 Horticultural Societies of the world that the French Pom- 

 ological Congress, touching the action of that body on the 

 nomenclature of fruits, propose to abolish synonymous 

 names of fruits, and give each fruit a single definite 

 denomination, or title. Our Horticultural Society at 

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