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DESCRIPTIVE LISTS OF FRUITS. 



No. IV. 

 PEARS {continued from p. .38). 



3. Fondante cf Automne. Fruit micUUe-sized, regularly obovate 

 in form, but often a little oblique, rounding off gradually to join the 

 short thick stalk. Eye in a broad and very shallow depression, open ; 

 segments erect, short and stout. Skin smooth, light-greenish yellow. 

 Flesh white, not always perfectly buttery, but abounding in sweet 

 and pleasant juice. A very handsome and good Pear, in the end of 

 September and beginning of October. 



4. Passans de Portugal. Fruit small, roundish oblate, generally 

 oblique at the stalk end. Ej^e rather large, often without segments 

 (the remains of the calyx), seated in a broad shallow basin. Stalk 

 about half an inch long, strong, inserted in a broad shallow cavity. 

 Skin of a greenish-yellow colour, thickly studded with minute dots 

 or points of a russet colour, which on the sunny side often become 

 brownish red. Flesh white, juicy and melting, sugary and agree- 

 ably flavoured. Ripens in the end of August, and may be kept 

 during part of September. One of the best early autumn Pears ; 

 and the trees are very productive as dwarfs or pyramids. 



J. B. Whiting. 



