For a very late market pear there is nothing to excel this old variety. The tree is a strong, healthy grower, and bears immense crops of magnificent fruit - often weighing over two pounds each! It is not a first-rate eating pear, but for culinary and preserving purposes there is nothing better. Season from November to January.

Where nothing is expressed to the contrary, -the varieties we have named succeed well upon either pear or quince, and planters can govern themselves accordingly.

(Note by Ed. of Horticulturist. - The above suggestive information is quoted as a hint of information to all Southern planters who grow for Northern markets. The list of varieties is an excellent one to follow, and needs no correction from us save as to the Howell, which we consider too tender in flesh to be a market variety for long shipping distances; as a family fruit it is unrivalled. The Clapp's Favorite will disappoint all who leave it to ripen on the tree. When they gather it, it will always be rotten inside. There is only one way to treat it, viz.: gather it when green and hard, ripen it in the house, and hurry it to market.)