CATALOGUE OF STRAWBERRIES, ETC. 15 



NOYELTIES AND SPECIALTIES. 



U;^^ For further information see Catalogue of Fruits. 



APPI-<t!IS. Jefferis, Jonathan, Red Canada, Spitzenburgh, Pewaukee. Red Biet- 

 igheimer, Stump, Sutton Beauty. 50 cents each. 



PEARS. Bonne dll Pnit* Ansault. Medium size; melting, juicy, and 

 very fine grained; one of the finest in quality of all newly introduced foreign 

 pears; superior to Seckel. Tree a poor grower, which necessitates double 

 working in order to obtain -good trees. September. Standard and Dwarf, 

 $1.50 each. 



FROM THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. 

 A Delicious Pear. — We have received from Ellw anger & Barry a box of 

 specimens of the Bonne du Puits Ansault, one of the newer pears, one of Leroy's 

 seedlings, which they have fruited for some years, and which we have noticed on a 

 former occasion. This pear is scarcely equalled for its delicious quality, being very 

 fine grained, extremely melting and juicy, and with a sweet, aromatic, and very 

 agreeable flavor. It is medium in size (about two and a half inches in diameter), 

 nearly round or round-obovate, sometimes distinctly obovate, thinly russeted, more 

 or less over its whole surface; the short, thick stem set in a narrow hollow, and the 

 eye in a narrow, deep basin. It reminds one externally of the Sheldon, although 

 having but half its size, and half its russet. If uniformly as good as where we have 

 met with it, it will become a very popular amateur sort, and fruit cultivators, who 

 are not French scholars, vvill be likely to cut its long name short into "Ansault." 



Frederick Clapp, or C!ap|>'s ]\[o. 22. We are indebted to the Hon. 

 Marshall P. Wilder for the following description: " Form generally obovate, 

 but somewhat variable; size above medium; skin thin, smooth and fair, clear 

 lemon yellow; flesh fine grained, very juicy and melting; flavor sprightly, acid- 

 ulous, rich and aromatic; season October 15th to November 1st. remaining 

 sound at core to the last; quality very good io best, and will be highly esteemed 

 by those who like acidulous pears. I*" has been exhibited for many years by 

 the originators, Messrs. F. & L. Clapp, of Dorchester, Mass. Of this pear the 

 committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society have reported favorably 

 for years. Of its quality they state in 1873: ' It was pronounced decidedly su- 

 perior to Beurre Superfin, and is regarded by all who have seen it as the 

 highest bred and most refined of all the many seedlings shown by Messrs. 

 Clapp.' It is probably a cross between Beurre Superfin and Urbaniste, the 

 tree resembling in habit the latter variety, and maj^ safely be commended as 

 worthy of trial by all cultivators of the pear." Tree a vigorous or fj-ee grower 

 and somewhat spiny. 



Standard trees, top grafted and top budded, two and three years, $2.00 each. 



Dwarf trees, one year, double worked 1.50 each. 



Souvenir dn Congcres. (See description in Catalogue of Fruits.) $1.50 each. 



FROM THE AMERICAN RURAL HOME 



Monstrous Pears. — The Souvenir du Congres. — We received, October first, 

 from Ellwanger & Barry, two specimens of this pear, with the following note: 



" We send you herewith two specimens of the Souvenir du Congres pear, the 

 larger weighing twenty-seven ounces and measuring fourteen inches in circumfer- 

 ence, the smaller weighing twenty-six and one-fourth ounces. They have been in 

 our ice house for several days, and are now over-ripe. When in proper condition, 

 the flavor is delicious." 



We cut them and found one measured, core diameter, five and one-half by four 

 and one-half inches, and the other five by four and one-half inches. They are very 

 fine grained, buttery, melting, but, as suggested above, they were so over-ripe that 

 their flavor was much impaired. This pear commences to ripen before the Bartlett, 

 and continues after that variety is gone. 



