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.
P. Doyenne* d'Alencon.
Q. p. Niles.
P. Lawrence.
Q. Glont moroeau.
Q. Vicar of Winkfleld.
P. Dix.
P. Colmar Nelis, or Winter Nelis.
Q. Bergamotte Esperen.
Q. B. Baohelier; rather a fall pear.
P. Columbia.
Q. Jaminette.
Q, Easter Beurre.
Q. Leon Leclerc Laval.
We fear that Church and Huntington, and some others, cannot be found yet in the nurseries. If the grafts of some of the new pears can be got, it would do well to cultivate, or, at least, to test them. An attentive reader of these pages will remember others of great promise, such as the Alexander, etc. etc., which well deserve consideration; but a greater variety than the above will not be necessary, and they are such as have been well tried and approved.
An amateur will endeavor to make a selection which will embrace as many seasons of maturity as possible. A few who desire only such as will ripen while they are at their country residences, and do not desire to be hampered with the care of the winter varieties, will adopt the two first lists. See the mode of ripening adopted by a Boston vender, in the notice of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in the last number, page 89.
 
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