THE PEAR. 



859 



Steinmitz Spice. 



Origin, Pennsylvania. 



Fruit small, roundish pyriform, greenish yellow, with nettings, 

 patches, and dots of russet. Flesh whitish green, juicy, melting, sweet, 

 pleasant, aromatic. Good. September. 



Sterling. 

 De Mott. 



Origin, Livingston Co., K Y. ; grown from seed brought from Con- 

 necticut. Tree vigorous, upright. Young wood grayish-yellowish brown, 

 an early bearer, and productive. 



Fruit medium, nearly round, slightly oval, very obscurely pyriform. 



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Sterling. 



Skin yellow, sometimes with a few small patches of russet, and on the 

 sunny side a mottled crimson cheek. Stalk rather stout, inserted in a 

 slight cavity, sometimes by a ring. Calyx open, in a medium, rather un- 

 even basin. Flesh rather coarse, juicy, melting, with a very sugary, brisk 

 flavor. Good to very good. Ripens last of August and first of Septem- 

 ber. 



Stevens 1 Genesee. 



Guernsey. Philippe Strie. 



Louise de Prusse. Doyenne Crotte. 



Crottee. Passa-tutti. 



Doyenne Galeux. Stephen's Genesee. 



Saint Michel Crotte. Genesee. 



Beurre des Beiges. 



This admirable Pear, combining in some degree the excellence of the 



