This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
The following is a list recommended by J. J. Thomas:
Bartlett, Beurre Bosc, Duchesse D'Angouleme, Howell, Beurre D'-Anjou, Lawrence.
Giffard, Tyson, Seckel, Belle Lucrative, Dana's Hovey, Josephine de Ma-lines.
Our Iist - Of the above list, for market, we would throw out the Howell (too soft for market, splendid as a family sort) and Beurre Bosc (not productive enough for the orchard).
We would substitute Mount Vernon, in place of Dana's Hovey, and retain all the rest. We now have 2,500 pear trees growing thriftily, and from a miscellaneous collection of over fifty sorts, we have, by grafting, thinned down to the following:
Bartlett, Beurre D'Anjou, Lawrence.
Dwarf - Duchesse D'Angouleme, Beurre D'Anjou, Lawrence, Vicar of Winkfield.
All of these sorts are capable of a double market, either for sale in the city as fresh fruit, or to the canners for preserving.
 
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