. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. om itin the same figure with Mr. Barrys ; a be-ing the outline from the Jar din Fruitier ; hthe outline sent us from one of the speci-mens grown at Rochester. In the size of thelatter, of course allowance must be made forthe enormous crop borne by the tree, ofwhich it was a part. This crop was notquite ripe when we saw the tree, but thespecimens were very beautiful in formand color, and we hope the stock of this,the genuine Belle of Brussels, at the MountHope Garden, will soon find its way intogeneral cultivation.—Ed.] * Fruit gros
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. om itin the same figure with Mr. Barrys ; a be-ing the outline from the Jar din Fruitier ; hthe outline sent us from one of the speci-mens grown at Rochester. In the size of thelatter, of course allowance must be made forthe enormous crop borne by the tree, ofwhich it was a part. This crop was notquite ripe when we saw the tree, but thespecimens were very beautiful in formand color, and we hope the stock of this,the genuine Belle of Brussels, at the MountHope Garden, will soon find its way intogeneral cultivation.—Ed.] * Fruit gros, souvent trAs allonge, renfle d la base, jauiiedans rombre, colore en rouge du cote du soleil lorsquil est bienexpose, autrement restant jaune partout: chair blanche, fon-dant, parfumee, tres bonne; sa maturile a lieu vers le milieudAout.—p. 121. 446 THE BELLE DE BRUXELLES AND PAQUENCY PEARS. These are two European pears that mayvery justly be placed on your list of select kinds. They were procured in France iu thespring of IS41, by my partner, Mr. Ell-. WANGER, among a large collection of Bel-gian and French varieties. They iiaveborne for two years, and 1 think I mayspeak of them with some degree of confi-dence. THE BELLE DE BRUXELLES. Belle dAodt. This I think unsurpassed, at least by anysummer pear of native or foreign originthat I have yet seen. It combines in aneminent degree, the various qualities thatare deemed indispensable in a good tree is vigorous, its growth is compactand straight; it is prolific to a fault; indeed,we suffered our specimen tree to bear somany, the past season, that the size andquality of the fruit were considerably im-paired. The fruit will require thinning,particularly when grown on the tree, on the quince stock, is onlybetween four and five feet high, mod-erately branched, and yet it bore and ripen-ed sixty speciyvens ; but they were inferior,generally, to the two dozen borne the pre-vious year. By the way, Imay remark th
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