EASTEE- BEUKEE 
HERE is not, perhaps, any anxiety moi'e geu- 
erally prevalent amongst Pear gi’owers than that 
to possess this fmit, of high quality, late in the 
spi-ing of the year. Pears become scarce after 
'*1 Christmas, and we have no fnxit that can ade- 
quately supply its place in the dessert on an Englishman’s table ; 
all the superior varieties of Pear's, when properly ripened, being 
refreshing and wholesome, as well as gr-atefirl to the palate ; those 
of melting quality being always to be preferred. 
The specimen of the Easter Beirn'e from which oirr drawing 
was made, in the month of February, was obligingly serrt to us 
