406 o's THE PEAR. 
Fruit small, oval. Skin pale yellow,-with a white b.oom, and 
sprinkled with reddish-brown spots at maturity. Flesh adherea 
closely to the stone, yellow, and when fully ripe, ‘of a rich, 
sprightly, sub-acid, agreeable flavour. Ripens about the last of 
September. . 
Ornamental Vurtahes, 
: There are few varieties of plums, which are’eonsidered pure- 
ly ornamental. One, however, is a remarkable exception to 
this, as it is scarcely exceeded in beauty in the month of -May 
by any other flowery shrub—-we mean the Dovusiz FLowrrina 
Stoz. It isa large shrub, only 10 or 12 feet high, with quite 
slender shoots and leaves, but it is thickly sprinkled, every 
spring, with the prettiest little double white blossoms about as 
large as a sixpence, but resembling the Lady Banks’ roses.- It 
is one of the greatest favourites of the Chinese and Japanese— 
those flower-loving people. ets 4 
The Common Enexisu Sxoz, or Blackthorn, (Prunus ‘spino- 
sq,) is rather an ornamental tree if-shrubbery platitation’: The 
branches are more thorny than those of the common damson 
and the fruit is nearly round, quite black, but covered with 2 
thick blue bloom. In the spring, this low tree is-a_ perfecd 
cloud of white blossoms. == ae 
The Dovsiz-BLossomep Prum has large and handsome dou- 
ble white flowers. Except in strong soils, however, they are. 
apt. to degenerate and become single, and are, indeed, always’ 
nferiour in effect to the Double Sloe. * . 4 
f The.Cherry Plum we have already described. It is one of 
the frnit-bearing sorts. 
. “Selection of Choice Varieties, 
Rivers’ Early Favourite, Green Gage, Imperial Ottoman, Jef- 
ferson, Lawrence’s Favourite, Purple Favourite,. Purple Gage, 
"Coe’s,Golden Drop, McLaughlin, Imperial Gage, Howard’s Fa- 
vourite, Prince’s Yellow Gage, Prune d’Agen, Reine Claude do 
‘Bavay, Schuyler Gage. 7 : 
“= 
CHAPTER XXI. 
THe Prar. 
» * Pyrus commuijis, Eb. — Rosacea, 
Poiriér, of the French; Birnebaum, German; # 
and Pera, Spanis 
’ ; i 
Tur Pear is, undeniably, the favo; 
botanists, , 
| Dutch; Pero, Italian 
pide a 
fruit of modern snag 
