These are all chance seedlings on my father's farm, being trees that were left unbudded in the nursery rows, except Grand Isle, which came up in the garden and has never been transplanted. This Grand Isle was outlined and described by Charles Downing in one of his supplements to "Fruits and Fruit Trees of America." This and all others of these pears have been figured and described in the Rural New- Yorker, and I need say but little about them here. All the trees are very hardy, and are productive in alternate years. Grand Isle is pyriform, medium size, slightly acid, does not rot at the core, but is dry and insipid if mellowed on the tree. Season, September.

The Refreshing is the most closely upright grower of any pear I have ever seen. At a distance it might be mistaken for a small Lombardy poplar. The fruit is shaped very much like the Sheldon. It is yellow, sweet, juicy and rich. Good mellowed on the tree.

The Little Gem tree is rather tall, pyramidal in growth, very productive of small, yellow fruit, of pyriform shape and true Bartlett flavor. Ripe the middle of September. the same as Refreshing.