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Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker
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w Pear—The Souvenir du Congres. DESCRIPTIONS and illustrations of this promising new variety appeared, in 1867,in the Revue Ilorticole, of Paris, as follows: The fruit is large and very large, resembling in form the Bartlett, Colman, anddArrenburg, and sometimes the Uverdales St. Germain, which it frequently rivals insize ; rarely, it resembles the Duchesse dAngouleme. The skin is smooth, of a handsomeyellow at maturity, washed with bright red, or carmine, on the side exposed to the sun.Flesh much like the Bartlett, having the musky flavor, though in a less degree. Its matu-rity commences in August and continues into September. This pear was originated by M. Morel, of Lyon Vaise, and by him dedicated to thePomological Congress of France. It was exhibited at the Universal Exposition in 1867,j and was awarded a first prize. The tree is one of the most vigorous and fertile; naturally pyramidal in form. The fruit is borne singly and in clusters of two or three, adhering wellto the tree.
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star Papers. Mr. P. Barry, in a letter to the Rural ISTew- Yorker, speaking favorably of its merits,adds a quotation from a letter of Thomas Rivers, the well-known English horticulturist, tothis effect: I keep on importing new pears, and bring them rapidly into bearing by potting themand placing them in an orchard house. As a rule, they are sad rubbish. I am induced tothink, however, that Souvenir du Congres, a seedling from the Bartlett, will be a great suc-cess. It often weighs two pounds, and ripens eight to ten days before the Bartlett. It isalso very handsome. Star Papers. l.—J)oes it pay to grow Strawberries ? I AM glad to see people coming to their senses at last. I met a strawberry-grower, theother day, who had sent all his crop to New-York, and asked him what he thoughtof strawberries. Well, Ive made up my mind that strawberries dont pay. Here Ive been raising threeacres of tliem for three years, and I have not made as much from them as from that ten-acre corn-tield yonder;

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