A fine amateur variety. When neglected proves unproductive. Profitable under good treatment, and on dwarf stocks. At north loses quality. One of the best late autumn pears, whether for market or home use. The leading market sort. Too musky to suit some tastes. No garden should be without this. Fruit best when house-ripened. But little disseminated. A good early amateur pear. Not much disseminated. Valued in Lenawee county. Popular on account of the health, vigor, and productiveness of the tree. Soon becomes dry and insipid, after ripening. A showy market pear. A strong grower. Fine large fruit. Inclined to rot at the core. A good market pear if gathered early. Liable to drop or be blown from the tree prematurely. New; gives promise of value. One of the few winter pears of high quality. 10 11 * * ** Well known and esteemed, but too small to become very popular. * * Fruit apt to be astringent on young trees. Should be house-ripened. In a warm exposure and favorable season, this will be found satisfactory. Little disseminated. A fruit of high quality. Tree vigorous; fruit lacks attractiveness and quality. Vigorous tree. Large, showy fruit, which decays soon at the center. Drops, and sometimes scabs or spots. Fruit requires to be gathered before maturity-decays rapidly. On old trees, when well ripened, this is an excellent pear. Excellent. Should be more widely planted. A promising winter pear. Nor as well known as it should be. Quite freely planted and generally esteemed. Not as freely planted as it should be. In this climate only valued for market and canning; and that only at the south. Very fine, but comes in the height of the fall fruit season. Only amateur. * * Remarks. * ** Like winter pears generally, this has not been largely planted. Tree healthy and vigorous. Should be grown on dry, warm soils. An excellent and profitable old variety. The earliest pear of good quality. Sometimes slightly astringent. One of the most desirable amateur pears of its season. A promising late autumn and early winter pear. Bears young. An early and abundant bearer. Lacks quality. A good, constant bearer of large, showy fruit of fair quality in most seasons. Tree vigorous, productive. Fruit sufficiently good for the market. High vinous flavor; rich. Becomes productive with high eulture. Fruit somewhat like Beurre Bosc, but more variable. Chiefly valued for the kitchen. Trees, strong, healty. A New York seedling from Winter Nelis. Tree vigorous and productive. Fruit excellent, but unattractive in appear ance. The standard of high quality among pears. Tree forms a beautiful pyramid. A hardy, productive tree; and a good fruit for general purposes; not attractive Very large and beautiful. Variable in size. Not of high quality. Both tree and fruit well adapted for the market. An excellent and fine looking pear, but soon decays at the core. An old variety; now to a great extent superseded. The best and most satisfactory very early pear. Valued for early market. A fine pear. Sometimes a little too acid. Productive. A beautiful tree. Fruit grown to some extent for the market. A tardy bearer. Too tardy a bearer. Is being abandoned; probably for this reason. Tree very vigorous and productive; its greatest recommendation for this climate. It often fails to ripen well. This pear should be planted in every garden. This old favorite is generally successful in this State; but occasionally scabs and cracks. The vigor and beauty of the tree, and the size of the fruit, are its sole recommendations. The fruit if well grown and ripened, is scarcely inferior to the Seckel. The tree must not be allowed to overbear. 46 * 49 * * * * * * * * |