THE PEAR. 
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near the parsonage, is also a healthy tree of about the same 
age, and uniformly a great bearer, yielding from fifteen to 
twenty bushels annually. The habit of the Churcl? pear is 
somewhat spreading in its growth, uniformly productive, and 
the fruit unvarying in its quality ; young wood deep yellow, or 
fawn. 
Fruit rather below medium size, oblate, inclining to turbinate, 
generally very much depressed, somewhat angular. Stalk 
rather long, stout, at its insertion in a small cavity sui rounded 
by russet. Calyx, small and closed in a broad, rather shallow 
basin. Skin green, becoming yellow at maturity. Flesh white, 
very buttery, juicy, melting, with an exceedingly rich, sweet, 
and highly perfumed flavour. Core small. Ripens slowly, and 
continues in use all of September. 
Dearborn’s Seedling. Man. Thomp. 
A very admirable, early 
pear, of first quality, raised 
in 1818, by the Hon. H. A. 
S. Dearborn, of Boston. It 
bears most abundant crops 
in every soil, and is one of 
the most desirable early va- 
rieties, succeeding the Blood- 
good, and preceding the 
Bartlett. Young shoots 
long, dark brown. Fruit 
scarcely of medium size, tur- 
binate, and very regularly 
formed. Skin very smooth, 
clear light yellow, with a 
few minute dots. Stalk slen- 
der, rather more than an 
inch long, set with very little 
depression. Calyx with de- 
licate, spreading segments, 
set in a very shallow basin. 
Flesh white, very juicy and 
melting, sweet and sprightly 
Dearborn's Seedling. in flavour. Ripens about 
the middle of August. 
Dix. Man. Ken. 
The Dix is, unquestionably, a fruit of the highest excellence, 
and well deserves the attention of all planters. It is one of the 
hardiest of pear trees, and although the tree does not come into 
bearing until it has attained considerable size, yet it produces 
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