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FKUITS. 



The iron pear^ so called in this vicinity, is nearly as 

 valuable, as the fruit is nov^^ Kound in the month of April. 



The Catillac is also valuable from the same qualities, and 

 is much more beautiful. 



The Spanish good Christian is also a great bearer, and 

 fitted for the same purposes. 



We may now add the valuable varieties of pears sent to 

 this country by Mr. Knight, with m.any more introduced 

 by that indefatigable and most successful cultivator of 

 fruits in New England, Samuel G. Perkins, Esq. of Brook- 

 line, to whom our northern horticulture is deeply indebted 

 for his liberal dissemination of his new and valuable 

 varieties. 



Mr. Knight's trees are all of them entirely new ^ not, as 

 has been supposed, produced by him, but principally by Mr. 

 Van Mods, of the Netherlands. The new kinds, thus in- 

 troduced, are as follows : — 



Cassiomont. — This pear has borne fruit. It ripens in 

 September — is of a fair size, beautiful to the eye, and deli- 

 cious to the taste ; well a^dapted to supply the place of the 

 St. MichaeVs^ should it fail us. 



Napoleon^ said to ripen in October, is described as a fine 

 fruit — has not borne in this country. 



Marie Louise is equally recommended — ripening in 

 October — is showing abundance of fruit the present 

 year. 



Biierre Knox showed its fruit in 1826 — a beautiful and 

 large pear, of buttery texture, ripening in October — is also in 

 fruit this year. 



Tilllngton — praised as a beautiful fruit — not in bearing. 



Passe Colniar — a late ixuit — not in bearing. 



Cohnar d'^hyver — a late fruit — not in bearing. 



Harden pont de Printems — showing fruit this year, and 

 presumed to be the best fruit of the pear kind for our cli- 

 ma,te — ripening in April and May. 



Poire d'^ Ar ember g — also represented as an excellent 

 pear. Mr. Perkins has also received many other new va- 

 rieties, among which we recollect the Charles d^Autriche 

 and the Sijhanche. 



The only object in introducing into this list these new- 

 varieties, is to say, that though vre have distributed several 

 thousand scions and buds, and although we have been rob- 

 bed of many more, yet we have so many nourishing shoots, 

 that we shall be able to furnish as many buds the ensuing 

 season, and grafts the stason following, as we huve ever 



