PEARS. 



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A tree imported from France, but whose name is unknown, 

 has produced fruit precisely like the foregoing, and it is there- 

 fore most probable that the variety is of French origin. 



POUND. Pr. cat. Coxe. Fes. amer. gard. 

 Cordelier, or Large Cordelier, of English authors. 



Next to the White Doyenne pear, the present variety is the 

 most common in this vicinity, it being of so great size and 

 subserving such useful purposes, that all desire to possess it. * 

 It is the largest of all the older class of pears, and there are 

 but three or four of those more recently introduced that can 

 compare with it in this respect. It often weighs from twenty- 

 five to thirty ounces, and one was exhibited in New Jersey, 

 about four years since, weighing forty and a half ounces. It 

 is of uniform shape, full and round at the head, and diminish- 

 ing gradually to the stalk, which is large and long ; the skin 

 is of a greenish hue, with a brownish russet cheek next the 

 sun ; the flesh is solid, and when cooked acquires a red colour. 

 This fruit is not suitable for the table, but is esteemed for bak- 

 ing and preserving. It will keep till late in the spring, and 

 may be used from time to time as required for the above pur- 

 poses. It is preferable to allow the pears to hang on the trees 

 until late, when after gathering they should be packed away 

 in chaff, or wrapped in paper, whi( h by excluding the atmos- 

 phere, keeps them from drying and preserves their freshness, 

 consequently rendering them more juicy and tender, and when 

 so treated they become towards spring of a yellow colour, and 

 the russet cheek acquires a fine tinge of red. 



The tree grows exceedingly strong even from its first ad- 

 vance, and its progress is very rapid, perhaps none more so, 

 forming one of the largest of its class, and being also exceed- 

 ingly hardy, and subject to no maladies or defects. Large 

 quantities of the fruit are put up in this vicinity in barrels for 

 the markets of New- York and for exportation. 



