. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. ue, purewhite, Vermillion red, and the like, thanwith the most fitting and delicate ming-ling of shades to be found under the widecanopy of heaven. Fortunately/asAioTZ, amore powerful teacher of the multitudethan the press or the schools, is now settingin the right direction. A few men oftaste and judgment, in city and country,have set the example by casting off allconnexion with harsh colours. What a fewleaders do at the first, from a nice senseof harmony in colours, the many will do af-terwards, when they see the superior beau-ty
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. ue, purewhite, Vermillion red, and the like, thanwith the most fitting and delicate ming-ling of shades to be found under the widecanopy of heaven. Fortunately/asAioTZ, amore powerful teacher of the multitudethan the press or the schools, is now settingin the right direction. A few men oftaste and judgment, in city and country,have set the example by casting off allconnexion with harsh colours. What a fewleaders do at the first, from a nice senseof harmony in colours, the many will do af-terwards, when they see the superior beau-ty of neutral tints, supported and enforcedby the example of those who build andinhabit the most attractive and agreeablehouses, and we trust, at no very distanttime, one may have the pleasure of trav-elling over our whole country, withoutmeeting with a single habitation of gla-ring and offensive colour, but every wheresee something of harmony and beauty. 49-4 TWO NEW AMERICAN PEARS. DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW AMERICAN PEARS. BY DR. W. D. HKIMCLE, IlllLAIJl^ Fig. 111. SMITHS fine summer pear originated in thegarden of J. B. Smith, Esq., the well knownPhiladelphia amateur horticulturist. Theoriginal tree is 70 or SO years old, and hasalways been a constant and uniform Smiths residence being in the districtof Moyamensing, this pear was namedSmiths Moyamensing, by the Pennsylva-nia Horticultural Society, in 1845. Fruit, of medium size, and in some sea-sons quite large, of a roundish obovateform, with a fleshy stem, nearly an inchlong. Skin, of a lemon colour, with occa-sionally blotches and lines of yellowish rus-set. Calyx, set in a furrowed basin, thesefurrows sometimes extending some distanceup the sides. Flesh, buttery, melting, and well flavored. Ripens from the middle ofJuly till September. THE HADDINGTON new winter pear was also raised byJ. B. Smith, Esq., from n seed of the PoundPear, planted in 1827. It fruited for the firsttime in 1
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