PEAES. 



size, shape, color, qimlity, and season, and without any hesitation we pronounce it, as 

 well as Siiifi'eic iVEspcrin, the same as Belle Lucrative. 



Bcurre Lucrative is identical with the above. 



Be la Vault. — This Pear never fruited until this season. We cut the first specimen 

 September Gth, and upon tasting the same we were delighted, proclaiming it equal to 

 the Barilett. Its great similarity caused us to examine the tree minutely ; and after 

 tiisting another specimen, we came to the unanimous conclusion that it was the Bart- 

 lett, and nothing else. 



Dcs Nonnes. — This fruit we received from the same source, and came to us labelled 

 Dcs Nones. We found the name in Mr. Leroy's catalogue, among those of his 

 lowest priced Pears. When he issued his next catalogue it was spelled Dcs Nonnes, 

 and placed in a list of his Pears quoted at double the former price, but still without a 

 description. Mr. Leroy, in his correspondence with us, says, " We have no trees of 

 this kind, at present, in our collection, except one in our school of fruits, which has 

 never, as yet, fruited in our nurseries, and we owe our knowledge of its merits to your 

 notice of it. We pronounce this P«ar of the very highest excellence, combining the 

 high flavor of the Seckel, with the delicious, melting qualities of the Belle Lucrative. 

 Fruit — medium size, regularly turbinate. Skin — smooth, fine, clear, light yellow, cov- 

 ered with numerous small, brown dots. Stalk — from one and a half to two inches 

 long, slender, inserted in a very slight depression. Calyx — small, closed and placed 

 in a small, shallow basin. Flesh — whitish, very juicy, sweet, melting and delicious, 

 with an exquisitely fine rich flavor and perfume. Ripens from the 10th to the last 

 of September. The tree is a luxuriant grower, forming a handsome pyramid on the 

 Quince, and an abundant bearer. The fruit is uniform in both size and appearance. 



Beurre Charron. — This is another fruit received from Andre Leroy, and like the 

 Des Nonnes, came unheralded and unknown. The only notice we have had of it is 

 in Mr. Leroy's catalogue, where it is entered under the head of " New species obtained 

 at Angers," but without description, while about twenty others, in the same list, are 

 particularly described. This is quite unlike the Bes Nonnes, in flavor, but nearly or 

 quite equal to it in quality. Fruit — medium in size. Form — roundish-obovate. Skin 

 — yellowish-green. Stalk — three-fourths of an inch long, set on without depression. 

 Calyx — closed, and placed in a deep, and rather broad basin. Flesh — exceedingly 

 melting, juicy, and perfumed, more like the Belle Lucrative, in its highest excellence, 

 in these particulars, than any Pear we know. Ripens about the 10th of October. It 

 grows well on the Quince. 



Doyenne Defais. — Fruit — above medium. Skin — yellow, with a fine red cheek. 

 Stalk — about one inch, and inserted in a deep cavity. Calyx — open, placed in a deep, 

 narrow basin. Flesh — white, fine-grained, very buttery, melting, rich, high flavored, 

 and delicious. Very desirable indeed. Grows finely on the Quince. Season — mid- 

 dle of October. 



Beurre Biemont. — Fruit — medium, obovate, greenish-yellow, with a brown cheek 

 — quite obliquely inserted, without depression. Calyx — small, closed, and placed 

 hallow cavity. Flesh — buttery, melting, juicy, sweet, with a slight and 



