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DESCRIPTIONS 
87. SALISBURY’S SEEDLING. Plate 14. Fig. 20. 
Fruit large, elongated ; body short, with a 
thick, prolonged neck ; base obtuse, bear¬ 
ing a short, recurved stem. Color yellow, 
sprinkled with redish brown dots, coalescing 
on the sunny side, and forming a brown 
surface; skin rather smooth. Calyx close, 
of medium size, inclosed in a narrow de¬ 
pression. Flesh white, sweet and juicy. 
Comes into use in August, and continues 
tit for baking till October. It is one of the 
finest baking pears in the slate. Originated 
with Nathan Salisbury, of Cortland county, 
New-York. 
WINTER PEARS. 
Class I. Length and breadth equal or subequal. 
Order I. Base acute or subacute. 
8S. MOCCAS. 
Fruit about the medium size, unsymmetrical; body prolonged to the stem ; sides unequal, 
with unequal curves, terminating in a subacute base, and running into a thin, slender, 
curved stem, an inch and a quarter long. Color pale yellowish green, with a brown 
cheek, and sprinkled thickly with brown and russet dots and stripes. Calyx short, stiff, 
inserted in an unequal depression. Flesh yellowish white, juicy, and richly flavored 
December. 
One of Mr. Knight’s pears. 
