The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE DOYENNE V^ BTE ?EAR. Triiiti oF Aituerrca PUte K? BvcLvai from. ^Fature & Ciirorno litk?- hy W. k^harp. THE DOYENNE DETE PEAR. Doyenne dEte. TJieorie Y<in Mom, [Mag. of Hort., vol. xiii. p. 06.) Doyenne de Juillet, Thompson, in Gard. Chronicle, Doyenne, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, The number of really good early pears is so exceedinglylimited, that every addition to the list is viewed with greatinterest by the zealous cultivat
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE DOYENNE V^ BTE ?EAR. Triiiti oF Aituerrca PUte K? BvcLvai from. ^Fature & Ciirorno litk?- hy W. k^harp. THE DOYENNE DETE PEAR. Doyenne dEte. TJieorie Y<in Mom, [Mag. of Hort., vol. xiii. p. 06.) Doyenne de Juillet, Thompson, in Gard. Chronicle, Doyenne, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, The number of really good early pears is so exceedinglylimited, that every addition to the list is viewed with greatinterest by the zealous cultivator. The early pears gener-ally cultivated, with few exceptions, are small and inferior-flavored, and, indeed, scarcely worth growing,—certainlynot by amateur cultivators for their own use. It is, there-fore, with no little gratification that we introduce to greaternotice the Doyenne dEte, a variety of recent introductionto American collections, and, as yet, but little France, it is a tolerably well-known peai, but its cultiva-tion seems to have been confined to the vicinity of Nantes, where it israised abundantly, and is esteemed as one of the best early pears. Itripens fully as early as the Madeleine; and the fruit, which is
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