This variety, of which we give a portrait in the present number, is undoubtedly one of the best, if not the best, early pear we have. We consider it quite superior to the Madelains, which ripens at the same time. It is one of Van Mons' seedlings, we are told in the new Annates de Pomologie of Belgium, mentioned in his catalogue of 1823, and one of the invoice of 320 varieties of pears sent in 1833 to M. Poiteau; and he described it in the Annals of the Horticultural Society Of Paris in 1834.

DOYENNE D'ETE' PEAR.

Fruit - small, roundish, slightly turbinate, and very regular. Stalk - an inch to an inch and a half long, pretty stout. Calyx - small, open, in a very shallow basin. Skin - greenish-yellow, with a brownish-red and sometimes a bright red cheek - very beautiful. Flesh - yellowish-white, melting, juicy, sweet, and slightly musky. Should be gathered a few days or a week before ripe. The tree is an upright, vigorous grower, with moderately stout, grayish-brown shoots, thinly sprinkled with drab dots. It is very productive, and bears early both on pear and quince. On the latter stock it bears so profusely, like the Bartlett, as to need close pruning and high culture to sustain its vigor.

DOYENNE D'ETE PEAR.

As far as we know, this variety has proved excellent wherever it has been tried; and we have no hesitation in recommending it to a place in all collections. It ripens here about the last days of July, generally.