The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . Clapps Favorite.—Fruit large, pyri-form, rather oblique; skin, smooth, yel-lowish green, profusely covered with greydots, a tinge of red on the sunny side;stalk, about one and a quarter inches,stout, inserted obliquely ; calyx, closed,in a very shallow basin ; flesh, juicy, witha high, vinous flavor; quality, best. Of all the newer pears introduced at thelate meeting of the Pomological Conven-tion, this pleased us the best, and we con-sider it a decided acquisition. It was raised in the garden of NathanielClapp, Esq., Dorchester, Massachuse
The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . Clapps Favorite.—Fruit large, pyri-form, rather oblique; skin, smooth, yel-lowish green, profusely covered with greydots, a tinge of red on the sunny side;stalk, about one and a quarter inches,stout, inserted obliquely ; calyx, closed,in a very shallow basin ; flesh, juicy, witha high, vinous flavor; quality, best. Of all the newer pears introduced at thelate meeting of the Pomological Conven-tion, this pleased us the best, and we con-sider it a decided acquisition. It was raised in the garden of NathanielClapp, Esq., Dorchester, are indebted to President AVilderskindness for the specimen from which wehave made our drawing and description,as we believe it has not been before de-scribed. Ik _£B^ ^lu| gardeners (^lonthlu.
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