The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . -son produced half a dozen large and beautiful fruit, which have proved of reallyexcellent quality. The fruit is large, obovate, tapering irregularly towards thestalk ; surface irregular, bulging out in places ; skin smooth, of a beautiful pea-green color, with a slight patch of russet round the stalk ; eye small, open, setin a very shallow, angular basin, almost level with the surface ; stalk long andslender, inserted a little on one side without depression ; flesh greenish-white,delicate, buttery, and melting, very solid, with sc
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . -son produced half a dozen large and beautiful fruit, which have proved of reallyexcellent quality. The fruit is large, obovate, tapering irregularly towards thestalk ; surface irregular, bulging out in places ; skin smooth, of a beautiful pea-green color, with a slight patch of russet round the stalk ; eye small, open, setin a very shallow, angular basin, almost level with the surface ; stalk long andslender, inserted a little on one side without depression ; flesh greenish-white,delicate, buttery, and melting, very solid, with scarcely any core ; flavor richand pleasant. This is a pear which we anticipate will take a high rank. In appearance, it issomewhat like a Glout Mor<;eau, but is distinguished by the very long slenderstalk and the deep-green skin. The flesh that of the Marie Louiseand Glout Mor9eau. Ripe in October. Grafts of this variety were received bythe society in i860 from the Societe Imperiale et Centrale dHorticulture duDepartement de la Seine 1 >:^m The Editors of Tiltons Journal of Horticulture cordially invite all in-terested in horticulture and pomology, in its various branches, to send ques-tions upon any subject upon which information may be desired. Our corps ofcorrespondents is very large, and among them may be found those fully compe-tent to reply to any ordinary subject in the practice of horticulture. Any ques-tions which may be more difficult to answer will be duly noticed, and therespective subjects fully investigated. Our aim is to give the most trustworthyinformation on all subjects which can be of interest to horticulture. We would especially invite our friends to communicate any little items ofexperience for our Notes and Gleanings, and also the results of items are always readable, and of general interest. We must, however, request that no one will write to the contributors to ourcolumns upon subjects communicated to the Mag
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