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and liealthfiilness, and bears so abundantly that the crop must 

 be thinned to i)revent breaking of branches. Souvenir du Con- 

 gres originated with Prangois Morel, Lyons, France, about 1852. 



Tree medium in size and vigor, upright-spreading, open-topped, very 

 productive. Fruit ripe in September; large, 3 7/lG inches long, 2 11/16 

 inches wide, quite uniform in size and shape, oblong-acute-pyriform, sym- 

 metrical, with unequal sides; stem 1 inch long, short, thick, curved; cavity 

 obtuse, almost lacking, shallow, narrow, russeted, furrowed, often with the 

 stem inserted beneath a pronounced irregular lip; calyx open; lobes sepa- 

 rated at the base, narrow, acute; basin wide, obtuse and flaring, furrowed, 

 symmetrical, smooth except for the thick russet covering; color yellow, 

 with a reddish blush on the exposed cheek, covered with nettings of russet 

 and yellow patches; dots numerous, small, russet, conspicuous; flesh white, 

 tinged Avith yellow, firm, granular, tender, very juicy, sweet, musky; 

 quality good ; core closed, with clasping core-lines ; calyx-tube short, wide, 

 conical; seeds long, wide, plump, acute. 



Group 2. Ohovate-ohtiise-pyriform Pears 



449. Clapp Favorite (Fig. 112) is the standard late summer 

 pear to precede Bartlett, which it much resembles in size, shape, 

 color, and flavor. The chief fault of the fruits is that they soon 

 soften at the center after ripening, to obviate 

 which they should be picked at least ten days 

 before they would ripen on the tree. The 

 trees are nearly perfect except that they go 

 down quickly when blight is epidemic. Two 

 good characters of the trees redeem the va- 

 riety from failure because of blight. After 

 those of Flemish Beauty and Tyson, the trees 

 of this variety show greater hardihood to cold 

 than those of any other standard sort; and 

 of all pears in America the trees of Clapp 

 ^^' rllorite^^''^^ Favorite are most fruitful. Clapp Favorite 

 is one of the half-dozen leading sorts of the 

 country. This variety originated with Thaddeus Clapp, Dor- 

 chester, Massachusetts. It was mentioned as a promising new 

 fruit in 1860. 



Tree large, upright-spreading, round-topped, productive. Fruit ripe in 

 early September; large, 4 inches long, 314 inches wide, obovate-obtuse- 



