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C. W. Stuart & Co., Newark, New York. 
Beurre d'Anjou. 
SUMMER PEARS, conliiuicd. 
Doyenne d'Ete. Season August. Fruit 
small. Color vellow, with a blush on the 
sunny side. Melting and sweet, with pleas- 
ant flavor. Tree a strong grower and 
very productive. 
Koonce. Season last of August. Fruit 
medium to large. Color golden yellow, \yith 
red cheek ; very handsome. Flesh spicy, 
juicy, sweet, very good (juality. Season very 
early. Tree vigorous, free from blight. 
Oriirin, Illinois 
Manning's Elizabeth. Late August. 
Bears in clusters Fruit small to medium. 
Crimson and gold color; very beautiful. 
Flesh melting, rich, sugary, sprightly, per- 
fumed flavor. Very productive. One of 
the best of early Pears. 
Osband's Summer. Ripens early in Au- 
gust. Fruit medium in size, often rather 
small. Greenish yellow, beconnii'^ yellow, 
with a reddish brown cheek, often faintly 
russeted. Flesh white, granular, with a 
sweet, mild and line flavor ; soon loses its 
flavor when mature Tree moderately vigor 
ous, and very |)roductive. Origin, Wayne 
county. New S'ork 
Tyson. Late August. Fruit above medium 
size. Bright yellow, with a reddish brown, 
softly shaded cheek, often some russet. 
Flesh of fine te.-iture, biittery, very melting, 
juicy ; flavor nearly sweet, aromatic, slightly 
perfumed, excellent Ripens tlie last two 
vvee'.cs of summer. The tree does not soon 
come into bearing. Origin, Pennsylvania. 
Wilder. One of the very 
earliest. Hardy. Produces a 
crop while young. Fruit large, 
pyriform, very liighly colored, 
pale yellow, shaded dark russet 
red; small, numerous dots. 
Flesh pale yellow, fine-grained, 
juicy ; flavor above medium to 
very good. Good shipper, and 
tree a very prolfic bearer. 
Good for market. A report 
from the state of Vermont, 
where the mercury goes far be- 
low zero, is that theVVilder has 
come through tlieir severe win- 
ters alive and bright to the tip. 
AUTUMN PEARS. 
Beurre Bosc. September 
and October. A large and Ijeau- 
tiful deep yellow Pear, russeted 
in patches. Tree a moderate 
grower. Fruit body broad, 
neck long, and very narrow. 
Flesh juicy, buttery, rich, per- 
ceptibly perfumed, sweet, ex- 
cellent. Bears well We usu- 
ally top-graft in order to ob- 
tain good standard trees. It 
does not succeed on the quince, 
or as a Dwarf tree. 
Bartlett - Seckel. Season 
September. A cross between 
Bartlett and Seckel, and com- 
bines in itself the richness and 
high flavor peculiar to those 
well-known varieties Fruit 
medium size. High color and 
handsome. Tree very vigorous, hardy and 
productive. Origin, Rochester, N. V. 
Bessemianka. Season September and Oc- 
tober. Fruit medium size; form obovate. 
Color yellow-crimson. Flesh buttery, melting, 
juicv, sweet, perfumed Ouality fair to good. 
Beurre d'Anjou. Hardy. November to 
December. A large, handsome Pear. Surface 
greenish yellow, a dull red cheek to the sun, 
clouded with russet Flesh yellowish white, 
fine-grained, buttery, melting, with a high, 
rich, vinous, e.xcellent flavor. Tree a good 
bearer. Begins to ripen in the middle of 
autuimi, ancl keeps until the winter holidays, 
when it conmiands a very high price in 
market. The hardiness, uniformity, relia- 
bility, e,\cellencc and long-keeping ciualities 
rencler it one of the most valuable of all Pears. 
Duchess d'Angouleme. October and No- 
vember. Should only be sold as a dwarf. 
Fruit very large A rough and uneven sur- 
face. Color a greenish yellow, with patches 
of russet and a dull red cheek Flesh yellow- 
ish white, melting, buttery, juicy. A vigorous 
and strong grower, and a good bearer while 
<iuite young. Valuable for orchard. It at- 
tains its greatest perfection on the cjuince 
root, or as .a dwarf tree. 
Eastern Belle. Extra hardy. September. 
Probably a seedling of the Belle l.ncnilive. 
Fruit ini ilimn size. Yellow, shaded with light 
red, and some russet. Juicy, half melting, 
sweet and rich, with peculiar nuisky in^rfume. 
K.\cellent ([ualitv ; very hardy and an abun 
dant and regnlai' bearer. Origin, Maine. 
