FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 
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LATE AUTUMN AND WINTER VARIETIES. 
Beurre d'Anjou. Large size, pyriform ; light green, with russet and red 
cheek ; rich, melting, and of excellent flavor. October and November. 
Beurre Clairgeau. Very large, pyriform ; yellow and red ; texture of Beurre 
Bosc ; flesh yellowish, nearly melting. Tree a fair grower, and an early, 
abundant bearer. A magnificent market fruit. October and November. 
Kieffer. Tree remarkably vigorous, having large, dark green, glossy leaves, 
and is an early and very prolific bearer. Fruit large to very large, round- 
ish oval, narrowing at both ends ; skin deep yellow, with a fine blu.sh on 
the sunny side ; flesh whitish, a little coarse, juicy, very good. Ripens 
through October and November. To have it in perfection, it should be 
gathered when fully grown and ripened in the house. The trees should 
be annually headed back. Does not succeed in Northern New York and 
Northern New England. 
Lawrence. An American pear of great excellence. Fruit medium size, 
obtuse pyriform; skin fine yellow; flesh juicy, sweet, and good. Tree 
hardy, vigorous, and very productive. December. 
Rutter. Fruit medium to large and nearly globular ; skin rough , greenish 
yellow, sprinkled with russet ; flesh white, moderately juicy, sweet, 
slightly vinous ; good. October and November. 
HARDY STANDARD PEARS. 
The following varieties of standard pears we rate as hardy as the Talman 
Sweet or Golden Russet apple, and we recommend their culture in those sec- 
tions where Special Apple List No. 5 can be planted with safet5'. They can 
be grown where it is about impossible to succeed with Bartlett. We give their 
season of ripening at the North : — 
Koonce, Aiigust. 
Clapp's Favorite, September. 
Flemish Beauty, . Sept. and October. 
Vermont Beauty October. 
Worden-Seckel Oct. and Nov. 
Sheldon, October. 
Beurre d'Anjou November. 
Lawrence, December. 
CHERRIES. 
The cherry thrives best on a dry, sandy, or gravelly soil, and there attains 
its highest perfection, but will do very well in almost any situation except a 
wet one. 
We divide them into two classes — Hearts and Bigarreaus, and Dukes and 
Morrellos. The first are strong and vigorous growers, making large, open, 
spreading heads or tops, and are best suited for the purpose of shade, produc- 
ing a large, heart-shaped, sweet fruit. The Dukes and Morrellos do not attain 
so large a size, are more hardy, less liable to bursting of the bark, and gener- 
ally produce acid fruit. 
