The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . Ripe in January, and keeps perfectly sound till June. [20]. HE SWJ\}JS OJiAli^GE PEAR. Tiutl s .£ Ai^x^x Ic I. PI e l^T? :)raW7v I^Jaho-e & G]ut,th.(. litKr ^by ^ St THE SWANS ORANGE PEAR. Swans Orange. Genesee Farmer, vol. vii. p. 25. Onondaga, Horticulturist, vol. i. p. 322. Onondaga Seedling, of some Collections in Western New York. fNo pear of recent introduction can claim so high arank as the Swans Orange. Possessing all the ha
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . Ripe in January, and keeps perfectly sound till June. [20]. HE SWJ\}JS OJiAli^GE PEAR. Tiutl s .£ Ai^x^x Ic I. PI e l^T? :)raW7v I^Jaho-e & G]ut,th.(. litKr ^by ^ St THE SWANS ORANGE PEAR. Swans Orange. Genesee Farmer, vol. vii. p. 25. Onondaga, Horticulturist, vol. i. p. 322. Onondaga Seedling, of some Collections in Western New York. fNo pear of recent introduction can claim so high arank as the Swans Orange. Possessing all the hardyand vigorous qualities of our hardiest native varieties,the fruit is not only of the laigest size, but unsurpassedin its beauty, and unequalled in excellence. The VanMons Leon le Clerc has obtained, and justly, a highreputation, and has been designated as the best pearin the world; yet Swans Orange, considered in all itsquahties, far surpasses it; and, if that epithet belongsto any variety, it is to the last named the Magazine of Horticulture, (vol. xiii. p. 243,)we have given a full account of this fine fruit, in which its history hasbeen traced back to 1806, at which period
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