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PEARS. 



with small brown dots, and the side next the sun is pretty oftei* 

 partially touched with red ; the flesh is melting, sweet, rich, 

 and very agreeable ; the seeds are brown, and the fruit ripens 

 in January, and keeps until April. It may be propagated on 

 both pear and quince. 



The last synonyme I quote with certainty from my own 

 knowledge, and it will be perceived that an error long since 

 discovered in this country, has been handed down by English 

 writers from the year 1767 to the present day. The Poire or 

 Pear d'Auch has been invariably described by Forsyth and 

 others as different from the Colmar, and that author states even 

 in his seventh edition, published in 1824, that its shape is 

 " fuller towards the stalk," and that "it is a more abundant 

 bearer than the Colmar," when in fact they are not only pre- 

 cisely the same, but the tree possesses characters strikingly dis- 

 tinct from almost every other variety of pear. 



Even as early as the second autumn of its growth from the 

 graft, the bark on the base of the stalk begins to show a de- 

 gree of roughness which annually increases as the tree grows 

 larger, until the whole body presents not only an extreme de- 

 gree of roughness, but becomes covered with cracks and inci- 

 sures of considerable width on every part of its surface, and 

 in this striking peculiarity I know of no other variety that can 

 be mistaken for it. This singular appearance of the bark, 

 which is somewhat like that of trees of the Green Newtown 

 pippin when ingrafted low, is by some persons supposed to 

 arise from an unthriftiness of the tree, when in fact it origi- 

 nates from no such cause. 



Fessenden in speaking of the culture of this pear in the vi- 

 cinity of Boston, states that the same remarks made by him in 

 regard to the Crasanne, and the Virgouleuse, apply also to 

 this, viz. that it is only suited to the city, or where the culti- 

 vators in the country make an artificial shelter for their treesy 

 either by walls, buildings, or terraces. 



