The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE AKDHEWiS PEAR. Fruits of America,I*[ate,N° DrawTifroniKdture &- Chronio ht¥ THE ANDREWS PEAR. Andrews. New England Farmer, vol. vii. (1829,) p. 266. > of some American , ) The Andrews is, unquestionably, one of the finestAmerican pears yet produced. It has everj-where,and under all ciiTumstances, so far as our knowledgeextends, proved to be a haidy, productive and supe-rior variety. In appeaiance, it is less preposse
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE AKDHEWiS PEAR. Fruits of America,I*[ate,N° DrawTifroniKdture &- Chronio ht¥ THE ANDREWS PEAR. Andrews. New England Farmer, vol. vii. (1829,) p. 266. > of some American , ) The Andrews is, unquestionably, one of the finestAmerican pears yet produced. It has everj-where,and under all ciiTumstances, so far as our knowledgeextends, proved to be a haidy, productive and supe-rior variety. In appeaiance, it is less prepossessingand showy than the Wilhamss Bon Chretien (Bart-lett) or the Golden BeiuTe of Bilboa, which ripen atthe same time; but in its ver} melting flesh, and thepecidiarly rich cinnamon aioma of its abundant juice,surpasses either of them, and is second to no otherpear of its history of the Andrews, though tolerably weU authenticated, is,however, to be received with some doubt. Tlie first account of it waspubhshed in the X. E. Farmer, by ^Ir. Samuel Downer, who introducedit to the notice of cultivators soon after the organization of the Massa-chusetts Horticultural Society, in 1829. Mr. DoMiier states that itoriginated
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