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VON^SIEBQLD 
Flu. 154. 
and climate than those of European origin, and will make a healthier and longer 
lived tree. 
There is a very strong resemblance in both form and quality of the three varie- 
ties of Pt/nis floribunda, described and figured in the April number of the Botani- 
cal Index, and the French variety Mikado , figured above, and no reasonable doubt 
can exist of their being all of the same origin or species; while the von Siebold, from 
our indefinite knowledge of it, we should say was of a different and distinct species, 
but all are certainly of Oriental (China and Japan) origin, and entirely distinct 
from the European species, from whence we in America obtained our entire stock of 
cultivated and edible Pears. 
We are very much interested in this new Oriental species of Pears, from the fact 
of its appearing to be more congenial to our climate and soil, as well as from the splen- 
did fruit obtained by its being hybridized with Pyrus communis ; for there is certain- 
ly no finer flavored fruit in market, than the LeComte and Kiefer’s Hybrid, and we 
hope that each of our nurserymen will at once arrange to add at least one new Hy- 
brid to the meager list now known. 
The above two varieties, the Mikado (Fig. 153) and the Von Siebold, (Fig. 154), are 
all we know of in Europe, at least it is all we have seen in their Fruit Catalogues; 
and in the April number, 1879, we figured and described all the original varieties we 
knew of in America, together with Kiefer’s and Garber’s Hybrids, — two excellent 
varieties, and intended to have had an outline of the LeComte, but neglected to do 
so until to late; so that we have given in the Botanical Index about all the infor- 
mation accessible in regard to the Pears.— Ed. Botanical Index.] 
