Luther Tucker, Esq

We send you by express to day, specimens of a pear, new to us, which has ripened on our grounds this season for the first time. We received the trees from M. Andre Leroy, of Angers, under the name of Des Nonts. We have never seen it advertised, either in his or any other catalogue, nor met with a description of it elsewhere. We think you will join with us in pronouncing it a pear of the very highest excellence - combining in an eminent degree the high flavor of the Seckel, with the delicious melting qualities of the Belle Lucrative. The tree is a luxuriant grower, forming a handsome pyramid, and is an abundant bearer. The fruit is uniformly as fair as the specimens now sent. It commenced ripening about the 10th of September; these specimens', now lapsing into lus-cious perfection, being among the last. Among a hundred varieties, many of them new, which have ripened on our grounds the present season, we have* found no one, if we may not say that equals it, we certainly may, that surpasses it.

The accompanying outline and description pro forma, are at your service, if you think its merits entitle it to be placed before your readers.

Fruit - medium size, regularly turbinate. Skin - smooth, fine clear light yellow, covered with numerous small brown dots. Stalk - from one and a half to two inches long, slender, inserted in a very slight depression. Calyx - small, closed, and placed in a small shallow basin. Flesh - -whitish, very juicy, sweet, melting, and delicious, with an exquisitely fine rich flavor and perfume. Ripening from the 10th to the last of September.

We are very respectfully, Ac., Thorp, Smith, Hinchrtt & Co.

Syracuse Nurseries, Syrycusa, Oct 4,1852.

Des Nones Pear.