PEARS. 123 
RIPENING IN JUNE. 
May Duke, Knight’s Harly Black, 
IN JULY. 
Black Tartarian, Black Eagle, 
Graffion, or Bigarreau, Downer’s Late, 
Elton, Downton. 
The Belle Magnifique and Early Richmond for cooking, and for new varies 
ties that promise well. 
CHERRIES THAT PROMISE WELL. 
American Amber, Governor Wood, 
Belle de Orleans, Great Bigarreau of Downing, 
Bigarreau Monstreuse de Bavay, Hovey, 
Black Hawk, Kirtland’s Mary, 
Coe’s Transparent, Ohio Beauty, 
Early purple Guique, Reine Hortense, 
Walsh Seedling. 
The Pear Tree (Pyrus communis) is considered by 
botanists as a native of England. Many cultivated varie- 
ties seem to have beeh introduced by the monks; remains 
of pear orchards attached to monasteries of the fourteenth 
and fifteenth centuries being not uncommon even in Scot- 
land, and very ancient trees of the finer dessert pears, such 
as the Colmar and Longueville, occasionally occurring. 
The list of cultivated pears amounts to more than 600 
names; but the number of those truly desirable is not 
large. We shall specify some of what are considered in 
England the best dessert fruit, following the usual division 
of Early and Late; the former class being in season in 
England in the months of August, September, and Octo- 
ber, and the latter in November, December, and J anuary. 
It is only a few years since pears fit for the dessert in 
January were known in Britain; such as the Glout mor- 
ceau, the Haster Beurré and the Winter Beurré; and 
they deserve the best attention of horticulturists. It is to 
be premised, however, that even within the limits of Bri 
