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PEARS. 



There is one fatality attending this tree that I have particu- 

 larly noticed, which is, that it is more subject to be affected 

 by the fire-blight than any other variety, so far as my expe- 

 rience goes, and this fact would seem to strengthen the opinion 

 that such attacks are connected with vigour of growth and 

 profusion of sap, which are particular characteristics of this 

 tree. The following additional descriptive remarks are copied 

 from the Pomological Magazine, a work published under the 

 auspices of the London Horticultural Society. 



"Wood bright, clear, reddish brown, with a few scattered 

 prominent pale spots ; leaves cordate, ovate, tapering a little 

 to the point, finely serrated, and quite flat ; fruit middle-sized, 

 turbinate, with a thickening on one side of the stalk, which 

 is about an inch long (.^ Auth.), eye slightly hollowed. It bears 

 much resemblance to the Citron de Sierenz, from which it 

 chiefly differs in the wood and leaves." 



Miller states this pear to have been commonly called the 

 Green Chisel, and in describing it he quotes both the Citron des 

 Carmes, and the Hastiveau of Duhamel, which that author 

 mentions as distinct fruits. It is doubtless from this cause 

 that the English at length found they had two pears under the 

 same name, and that in consequence they dropped the title of 

 Green Chisel, (as has been done) formerly applied to this, and 

 continued it for the other variety, which from the train of 

 circumstances, is probably no other than the Hastiveau of 

 Duhamel. 



GREEN CHISEL. Lano. pom. Foe. Pr. cat. 26 ed. 



Hastiveau, of the French ? 



The pear cultivated under this name in most collections in 

 our country, and originally so called in Miller's Gardener's 

 Dictionary and other English works, has been already stated 

 to be the Madeleine ; whereas the present one is for reasons 

 already advanced supposed to be the Hastiveau of the French 

 collections, still as it may be a distinct variety, I insert it. 



