THE PEAR. 
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Gustin’s Summer. 
Fruit small, roundish. Skin yellow. Flesh white sweet, with- 
out much flavour. First of September. 
Harrison’s Large Fall. 
Ruslimore’s Bon Chretien. 
Fruit Large, pale yellow. Great bearer. Fine old baking 
pear, but not a table fruit. 
Newtown Virgalieu. 
Native of Long Island, a baking pear. November and De- 
cember. 
Hessel. Thomp. 
Hazel. 
A Scotch pear, very productive. Fruit small, obovate. Skin 
yellowish-green. Flesh whitish, juicy, of little or no value. 
First of September. 
Huguenot. 
A fruit of second quality, originated by Mr. Johonnot, of 
Salem. It bears abundantly, but is rather dry, and not worthy 
of general cultivation. Young shoots strong, upright, yellow- 
ish-brown. 
Fruit medium, roundish. Skin smooth, pale yellow, sprinkled 
with large spots of bright-red. Flesh white, fine-grained, hall 
breaking, sweet, but wanting in flavour and juice. October. 
Hull. Hov. Mag. 
Originated in the town of Swanzey, Mass. 
Fruit of medium size, obovate. Skin yellowish-green, a good 
deal sprinkled with russet. Flesh white, a little coarse-grained, 
but melting, juicy, with a sweet, slightly perfumed flavour. 
Hunt’s Connecticut. 
An American fruit for kitchen use. Med um, oblate, yellow- 
ish-green, coarse, dry, and sweet. 
Ives’ Winter. 
Raised by Prof. Ives, of New Haven. Fruit medium, depress- 
ed, pyriform. Skin thick, yellowish, sprinkled with russet. 
Stem large and long, in an abrupt cavity. Calyx open, in a 
large basin. Flesh white, coarse, and granular. December. 
