554 rHE PEAR. 
Fruit in size and shape resembling Dearborn’s seedling. Co. 
iour green, much blotched with russet. Flesh buttery and melt, 
ing, with an excellent flavour. Season July, and ripens well in 
the house. Has not proved good here. 
Uwenran. 
Dowlin. Round Top. 
Origin on the premises of widow Dowlin, Uwchlan township, 
Pa., near the Brandywine. => 
Fruit below medium, ‘roundish, inclining to obovate. Skin | 
yellow, mostly covered with golden russet, Stalk long, curved, 
in a slight ‘depression. Calyx open, basin- shallow. ‘Flesh 
white, melting, juicy, with a fine, aromatic flavour. If not pick- 
ed early, it is disposed to rot at the core. Ripens last of Au 
Van Buren. Wilder MS. 
An ‘American ‘seedling, raised by Governor Edwards, ‘of 
New Haven, for which we are indebted to Colonel Wilder, of 
Boston, It is a most beautiful fruit,-6f ‘second quality only ‘for 
the table, but. very excellent ‘for ‘baking ‘and ‘preserving, and 
kitchen use generally, —- o 
Fruit large, obovate, rather flattened at'the’éye. ‘Skin clear 
yellow, ‘with ‘a rich, orange-red biish ‘next ‘the ‘sun, ‘regularly 
dotted with conspicuous brownish specks, ‘and slightly ‘totched 
with greenish and russet spots. Flesh white, crisp, sweet and 
perfumed. 
Van ‘Martm. ‘Bivort. 
Fruit large, oblong-pyriform. Skin .yellow, rarely with a 
little red. Stalk‘ rather long and’slender, ‘inserted in a flattened 
cavity. ‘Calyx large, set in a-regular, shallow basin. Flesh 
white, liable to rot at;the core,-half melting, not very: juicy, but 
sweet and: pleasantly perfumed. October. 
VaAvQvELin. 
“Poire Vanquelin. Poire Seutin # 
Fruit medium, obdvate, inclining ‘to turbinate. -Skin green, 
nétted,; patthed, and sprinkled with russet. Flesh.granular, juicy, 
inelting, vinous, sind’perfuined. November to March. 
Van Asscue. Bouvier. 
Van Assene (erroneously). Van Asshe. 
Tree very vigorous, productive ; young shoots reddish-brown, 
