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fruit that is to be eaten uncooked, I seldom refer to 

 beauty of appearance, never to size. Indeed excessive size 

 is often a real detriment to fruit you wish your friends to 

 eat ; they are actually afraid to help themselves to a 

 monster specimen, and ashamed to have it seen upon their 

 plate. 



I have mentioned none but the very best Dessert Plums, 

 though I have grown most others, but they are hardly worthy of 

 house treatment. 



Peaks : — 



1. Superfln. 



2. Pitmaston. 



3. Emile d'Heyst. 



4. Durondeau. 



5. Cornice. 



Few, if any, of the early or half-early Pears are in my 

 opinion worth the trouble of house culture ; but the above, 

 from their superior excellence, should never be omitted. 

 Nos. 1, 4, and 5 are three of the finest Pears for flavour 

 in existence. 



6. Knight's Monarch. 



7. President Osmonville. 



8. Beurre d'Anjou. 



9. Conseilleur de la Cour. 



10. Winter Nelis. 



11. Nouvelle Fulvie. 



12. Easter Beurre. 



13. Olivier de Serres. 



14. Beurre d'Aremberg. 



With a dozen and a half or so of fruits] of each of 

 these, a little household like my own need never be with- 

 out good Pears till after Christmas is well over. A supply 

 of really good English-grown Pears after the 1st of 

 January is a thing to be hoped for rather than expected. 



Note. — Late Pears from an orchard-house are generally much more melt- 

 ing, and of richer flavour, than from the open air. 



