The Fire-Blight Fungus In The Pear

Prof. Arthur proves very clearly that only the one Bacterium, Micrococcus amylovorus, has to do with the pear blight. He inoculated the fruit - a pear - with many other species, but they did not spread. When mixed with this species, none grew but this particular one. So far no other species but this was found injurious to the pear.

The Kieffer Pear

This has fruited in England, and pronounced of good but not first-rate quality.

Packing Pears

The French, who export more pears than any other nation, cover the inside of the boxes with spongy paper or dry moss, which absorbs the moisture. Each pear is then wrapped in soft paper, and placed in layers in the boxes, the largest and least mature in the bottom, filling all interstices with the dry moss. Thus, they will keep a month or more. They are so closely packed that though they cannot touch each other, all motion is prevented. If one decays the others are not harmed. - Gardeners' Chronicle.

Dana's Hovey Pear

This has not always met the highest expectations. There seems necessary some of the special management to which we recently adverted. Mr. Hovey tells the Garden that "if gathered October 10, while quite green and hard, and put into boxes or barrels, just as store apples, it will ripen up from December 1st to the 30th, with a rich golden russet hue unlike any other pear, and possess a lusciousness of flavor unsurpassed, I might truly say, by any other fruit ever grown in our gardens; no pine-apple or banana equals it".

Doyenne D'Ete Pear

The Bulletin d'Arboriculture et Floriculture, of Belgium, says it is getting to be a bad point in a fruit to be "large and new," and it is to the credit of this pear that it is neither. Different accounts have been given of its origin. A work published in Amsterdam in 1806, says it originated in the garden of the ci-devant Capuchin Fathers at Mons. "As is the case with all good fruits, it has a great number of synonyms;" and it quotes six - Doyenne de Juillet is the name adopted by the Editor. He claims it as the earliest of all in Belgium, except a few small and insignificant things.

The Flemish Beauty Pear

This once popular variety, although by no means an old kind, is said to do well no longer anywhere. No one seems to know why. It would be worth knowing whether there is any locality in which it yet does well.