THE ‘PEAR. 578 
-Gusrin’s 'SuMMER. 
Fruit small, roundish. Skin yellow. Flesh white sweet, with- 
out much flavour. First of September. 
Harrison’s Lares Faun. 
Rushmore’s Bon Chrétien. 
Fruit Large, pale yellow. Great bearer. Fine old baking 
pear, but not a table fruit. 
‘Newrown. Vireatinv. 
Native of Long Island, a baking pear. Novembér and De- 
cember, 
Husszr. Thomp. 
- Hazel, 
A: Scotch-péar, very-productive. Fruit small, obovate. Skin 
yellowish-green. Flesh whitish, juicy, -of little or no value. 
First of September. 
: Huevenor. 
‘A fruit of ‘second quality, originated by Mr. Johonnot, of 
Salem. It Bears abtindantly, but is ‘rather dry, and not ‘worthy 
of general cultivation. Young shoots strong, upright, yellow- 
ish-brown. - ; 
Fruit medium, roundish. Skin smooth, ‘pale ‘yéllow, sprinkled 
with large spots of brightred. :Flesh white, fine-grained, half 
breaking, sweet, but wanting in-flavour and juice. ‘October. 
‘Huu. -Hov. Mag. 
Originated in the town of Swanzey, Mass. 
Fruit of medium size, obovate. “Skin yellowish-green, a good 
. deal sprinkled with russet. Flesh white, a little coarse-grained, 
but melting, juicy, with a sweet, slightly perfumed ‘favour. 
Husr’s Connecticut. 
An American fruit for kitchen use. Med um, oblate, yellew- 
ish-green, coarse, dry, and sweet. 
‘Ives’ Waerer. 
‘Raised by’ Prof. Ives, of New Haven. Fruit meditm, depress- 
ed, . pyriform. ‘Skin ‘thick, ‘yellowish, sprinkled ‘with ‘russet. 
Stem large and long, in ‘an abrupt cavity. Calyx open, ‘ina 
large basin. Flesh white, coarse, and granular. December. 
