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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
t MAY, 
Von Siebold, whereof T. Mater is the well-known manager. The two first-named 
were offered in the year 1812, the other two in 1813. 
Mikado and Daimio are summer pears. Madame Siebold and Sieboldii can be 
kept till December and later. All four are good for kitchen use. The two first 
are quite ornamental when ripe, being pure 
yellow in colour, and hanging on long stalks. 
The Japanese people eat them for dessert, 
though we suppose they must have a different 
taste from ours, for we cannot eat them raw ; 
but these Japanese are a queer people. 
The two last are used in Japan in the 
kitchen ; but here is an extraordinary circum¬ 
stance—M. Von Siebold had 
always said that these late pears 
could be kept later than any. 
other sort in existence—more 
than eight or ten months, or 
sometimes till the following 
year; they are also much larger 
in Japan. Both these state¬ 
ments have been again made not long since by M. Maximowicz, the well-known 
traveller in China and Japan, when he was paying a visit to the establishment 
of M. Von Siebold, at Leyden. 
Von Siebold says the following of it:—“The envoys of the Ancienne, 
Compagnie Neerlandaise have not ceased to admire in their journeys to the 
Court of Yedo, the large pears exhibited in^ the fruit warehouses, and perfectly 
