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PEARS. 



cides. The time of ripening is from the middle of October 

 to the middle of November. The first trees of this kind 

 brought to our country were imported by myself. I have ex- 

 tended its culture very considerably, and have sent a number 

 to different parts of the union. 



PINE APPLE PEAR. Pr. cat. 



Poire Ananas. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Ananas. 



This variety Mr. Braddick states to be nearly allied in ap- 

 pearance and flavour to the Present de Malines and Passe 

 Colmar, and some of the pears which he sent to Mr. Loudon 

 were declared by him to be excellent. They were tasted on 

 the first of March, and Mr. B. says that he had kept them 

 back as long as he could. This may consequently be deemed 

 a very valuable winter pear. He also makes the following 

 remarks as to keeping pears well — " They should be pre- 

 served in an equal dry temperature, under the fermenting 

 point; whence they should be brought out just at the time of 

 using them. Acting upon this experience, I have prepared a 

 fruit room thirty-two feet under the surface of the earth, in 

 the dry solid rock." It is now six or seven years since I im- 

 ported the first tree of this kind from Flanders, from which a 

 great number have since been increased. 



I also received it a second time from Mr. Braddick in Feb- 

 ruary, 1828, together with eleven others of his most choice 

 varieties of pears, twenty very select varieties of apples, and 

 six of strawberries. Indeed, the death of that friendly and 

 excellent man, may be most justly deplored as a public loss. 

 He communicated to me many circumstances respecting his 

 fondness for the culture of fruits, which perhaps I may refer to 

 hereafter, as being both amusing and instructive. 



