Vicar Of Winkfield

We are indebted to P. R. Freas, Esq., for specimens of this pear, called by the French Monsieur le Cure. They are very fine, but to our taste, not equal to a well ripened Duchesse, or a fine Lawrence in season about the same time.

Apples from our neighbor Keyser, of several fine kinds, show emphatically that Pennsylvania is not utterly worn out, as some will have it to be.

Vicar Of Winkfield Pear

John Jay Smith says in The Gardener's Monthly, that he priced Vicar of Wink-field Pears in one of the Philadelphia fruit stores, last January, and the modest price asked was 75 cents each, - they were very large and fine.

Vicar Of Winkfleld Pear

Cultivators say that the quality of this fruit improves yearly with age. One writer says. " when the tree was young, the fruit was poor, and not considered of any value for cooking, but as it grew older, the fruit improved, and was now carefully saved for winter eating".