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PEARS. 



*' is in Boston the prince of pears, but of no value in the conn- 

 try unless on walls, or in gardens sheltered by walls and hills." 



From these considerations it would appear preferable, that 

 the trees be low set, in order that they may be trained accord- 

 ingly. The growth of the tree is slow, straggling, and 

 irregular, and when young it is difficult on this account to be 

 trained into an erect and well formed standard, from which 

 cause it arises that trees of this variety and of the Gansels Ber- 

 gamot, which grows in a similar manner, when sent from the 

 nurseries, have so ill shapen and indifferent an appearance. 



The Brown, Red and Golden Beurres, which have been de- 

 scribed by numerotis authors as distinct, and the Beurre gris 

 dore, and rouge, which have been separately applied as distinct 

 titles, are identically the same fruit ; and the Pomological 

 Magazine follows the correct course long since adopted by the 

 intelligent French writers, of uniting them all under one head. 



The Pomological Magazine, however, pays a high compli- 

 ment to Duhamel for making known these facts of the several 

 titles being synonymous, when by referring to De la Quintinye, 

 it will be seen they were already promulgated ere Duharnel 

 was in existence, and had been repeated by Evelyn in 1693, 



It can readily be judged how much this measure of proper 

 arrangement was called for in England, as adopted in the 

 Magazine referred to, when we see that even in the seventh 

 edition of Forsyth, which purports to be and really is greatly 

 improved upon the previous editions, this pear is described un- 

 der no less than four distinct heads, the descriptions all vary- 

 ing from each other, 



The following description given in the magazine referred to, 

 being very precise, I have extracted it : 



Wood, moderately strong, short jointed, flexuose, very apt 

 to become cankered ; but if healthy, of a bright reddish chesnut 

 colour, dotted with pale brown : leaves rather large, ovate- 

 oblong, tapering to the point, folded together, irregularly and 

 obscurely toothed ; petioles nearly an inch long ; stipules often 

 as long as the petiole ; flowers, opening early, middle sized ; 



