In the ad interim fruit report of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society mention is made of "a Duchesse d'Angouleme of enormous size - nearly five inches long by four and a quarter broad, and weighing twenty-five and a quarter ounces." We are informed by Robt. Iredell, Esq., of Norristown, who presented the specimen, that the tree on which it grew was procured from the nursery and planted in his garden in the spring of 1852. In the spring of 1853 it was five feet six inches in height, blossomed at the proper season, and produced three Pears, all of which fully matured, and about the 5th of October were taken from the tree, and weighed as follows: one pound three ounces, one pound three and a half ounces, and one pound nine and a quarter ounces - the three lacking but a quarter of an ounce of four pounds ! The Duchesse was unusually fine last season wherever we saw it. The publisher of this journal Mr. Vice, gathered from some young trees of his, only one year planted, we believe, a number of specimens with blood-red cheeks, and more melting and delicious than any we ever tasted before.

His trees were fed with guano.