The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE HEMTEL PEATl ItixtIs oFAmeriea,Plate N° Drawn from JTature & Ckomo liih.^ THE HENKEL PEAR. Henkel. Magazine of Horticulture, vol. xiii. 1847. The Henkel is another of the fine pears introducedas long ago as 1835 or 1836, by Messrs. Kenrick andManning, who received scions of it, with other sorts,from Dr. Van Mons, of which we have already mademention in our first volume; and it appears to bewholly confined to American collections. True, t
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE HEMTEL PEATl ItixtIs oFAmeriea,Plate N° Drawn from JTature & Ckomo liih.^ THE HENKEL PEAR. Henkel. Magazine of Horticulture, vol. xiii. 1847. The Henkel is another of the fine pears introducedas long ago as 1835 or 1836, by Messrs. Kenrick andManning, who received scions of it, with other sorts,from Dr. Van Mons, of which we have already mademention in our first volume; and it appears to bewholly confined to American collections. True, thereis a Henkel dhiver, in the French and Belgian cata-logues, of recent date ; but as that is a winter pear,it cannot be referred to our Henkel. It may, how-ever, come up hereafter under a new name; for allthe fine seedlings remaining in Van Monss nursery,at his death, are being introduced as rapidly as they show their fruit. The Henkel is also another of the new pears which has rapidlyimproved upon acquaintance and under good cultivation. Mr. Man-ning, the younger, first sent us specimens of it from his extensivecollection, in 1846, from which we gave an engraving as above quoted;the same outline we now introduce on the ne
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