This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V26", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A. B. Baker, Poughkeepsie, New York, sent us last September, a box of pears for name, desiring answer through the Gardeners' Monthly. As the replies would scarcely be of interest to any one but our correspondent, we sent reply by mail direct to him, but had it returned to us as "unclaimed." We will therefore say here that it is very difficult to name unripe pears, especially when grown in a distant locality, so we must omit some, but the following are probably correct. No. i, Flemish Beauty; 3, Bartlett; 4, Seckel; 5, probably Lawrence; 6, Bartlett; 7, Duchesse d'Angouleme; 10, Lawrence; 11, probably Lawrence; 12, B. d'Anjou.
 
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