PEARS. 



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knobby at the head. This very fine pear compares very nearly 

 to the St. Germain in appearance, but has a higher flavour. 

 It comes in eating sooner than the above named pear, being in 

 perfection from the middle to the last of October. It bids 

 fair to be one of our very best autumn pears, and valuable for 

 its recent origin, and its claims as a native. It may with the 

 greatest justice be introduced to our gardens and nurseries. 



From what we have seen of this variety, we think it will be 

 one of our handsomest and very best pears, and will be largely 

 cultivated in gardens generally. 



GORE'S HEATHCOT. Pr. cat. 



This fine seedling did not, the last season, bear as well as 

 usual ; but the fruit was very excellent. This variety will be 

 a good substitute for the St. Michael's, or White Doyenne. 

 This comparison is recommendation enough for it. 



CLAP. Pe. cat. Down. 



This fruit is in point of size rather under medium ; colour 

 yellowish green, with a little brownish blush on the sunny side; 

 stem long and bending over, set on the top, with a little rising 

 round the bottom of the stem ; eye or blossom end a little in- 

 dented, and of common size; flesh whitish, buttery, and juicy, 

 it has a high aromatic flavour, and is a little musky, resembhng 

 very much the old sort of Boston Catharine, or ^'Kattern" in 

 taste, but is a little more sprightly ; form being however one 

 quarter larger ; the fruit more free from blast or black spots, 

 and the brown not of so deep a shade. The tree grows vigo- 

 rously, branches upright, leaves dark green, rather broad and 

 flat, and finely serrated ; colour of the wood brownish, with 

 long thorns ; the leaves turn yellow and commence falhng as 

 the fruit ripens, and in a short time the tree becomes nearly 

 bare of foliage. There is no doubt of this tree being a seed- 

 ling ; and I should judge from its resemblance, that the Ca- 

 tharine above alluded to, was one of its parents. It came up 



