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The pears of New York

VARIETIES ANDRÉ DESPORTES 122 ANSAULT 122 BARTLETT 124 BELLE LUCRATIVE 126 BEURRÉ D'ANJOU 128 BEURRÉ BOSC 130 BEURRÉ CLAIRGEAU 132 BEURRÉ DIEL 134 BEURRÉ GIFFARD 134 BEURRÉ HARDY 136 BEURRÉ SUPERFIN 138 BLOODGOOD 138 BRANDYWINE 140 BUFFUM 142 CLAPP FAVORITE 142 COLONEL WILDER...

Chapters

7. CHAPTER V

Seedling of Bartlett which originated with J. E. Hassler, Placerville, Cal., and was introduced by Loma Rice Nursery in 1916. Tree similar to Bartlett but branches more slender...

6. CHAPTER IV

This old French sort is sparingly grown in New York, and is still listed by a few American nurserymen. The pears are handsome and very good in quality, but they quickly soften a...

9. Volume 4. Philadelphia: 1803.

A Naturalist In Western China with Vasculum, Camera, and Gun. Being some account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Ki...

2. CHAPTER I

The pear has no history if history be defined as a record of evolution. Even the annals of the pear, which but state events in chronological order, are a heap of confused facts...

5. CHAPTER III

The common pear or some of its hybrids with the oriental pear is grown for a home supply of fruit, if not for the markets, in every part of North America where hardy fruits thri...

4. CHAPTER II

The pear belongs to the great order Rosaceae, the Rose Family. There are about ninety genera in this family, the most important of all botanical groups to growers of hardy fruit...

3. Part II, p. 341), says: 'An _Orange_ Pear Tree grows the largest, and

yields the fairest fruit. I know one of them near forty Foot high, that measures six Foot and six Inches in Girt, a Yard from the Ground, and has borne thirty Bushels at a Time,...

8. Part I. Pomologie, ou Description des meilleures sortes de Pommes et

Deutsche Pomologie. Chromolithographische Abbildung, Beschreibung und Kulturanweisung der empfehlenswerthesten Sorten Aepfel, Birnen, Kirschen, Pflaumen, Aprikosen, Pfirsche und...

1. CHAPTER V.--MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS 236

VARIETIES ANDRÉ DESPORTES 122 ANSAULT 122 BARTLETT 124 BELLE LUCRATIVE 126 BEURRÉ D'ANJOU 128 BEURRÉ BOSC 130 BEURRÉ CLAIRGEAU 132 BEURRÉ DIEL 134 BEURRÉ GIFFARD 134 BEURRÉ HARD...