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NEW FOUEION PEARS. 



Skin — smooth, yellowish-grecn, marMeJ nnth green and brown, red next tlie sun. 

 Flesh — very fine, melting, surrary, and liighly perfumed. Season — NovemU'r. Bore 

 for the fii-st time in 1843. This first-rate Pear was obtained by Major Esperen. 



^^ Jules Bivort. — The tree is of moderate vigor, but very productive. Fruit — hirge, 

 obovato, about three and a half inches in height and three indies in diameter. Skin 

 — dull green, becoming yellow when fit for use, dotted with brown, and sligliily 

 tinged with red next the sun. Flesh — yellowish-white, fine, melting, half-buttery, 

 with abundance of sugary, vinous, much perfumed juice. Fit for use about the mid- 

 dle of November. Raised by Alexandre Bivort, and bore for the first time in 1847. 



^^ Poire Andouille. — The tree is vigorous, and a great and constant bearer, suitable 

 for a standard or a pyramid. Fruit — three and a half to four inches in length, and 

 about two inches in diameter at the widest part, near the eye; and it is nearly as 

 thick toward the stalk, which is short, thick, and obliquely inserted. Skin — yellow. 

 Flesh — white, coarse, juicy, sweet, and agreeably perfumed. This Pear somewhat 

 resembles the Bcurre Bosc, but it is smaller, and so deformed that it has received 

 from us the name of Poire Andouille, that being the form which it generally assumes. 

 "Were it not rather gritty it would be an excellent dessert fruit ; but it would furnish 

 a good supply throughout the season by being dried in the oven. We have tasted 

 the fruit fresh from the tree in the middle of September, its usual period of maturity, 

 and at the same time fruits of the previous year, dried in the oven, and still very 

 excellent. We received this excellent variety from the Abbe Caxet, commune de 

 Montigne, near Montfaucon (Maine-et-Loire), who had cultivated it for fifteen years. 

 He obtained it from the nurseries of M. Langlois, at La Brulais, near Beaupreau, 

 which were soon given up. M. Canet had no name for the fruit, nor had he seen 

 the variety in his neighborhood. [From the above description, it is very probable 

 that the variety in question is the common Calebasse, not the Cahhasse Base or 

 Beurre Bosc, to which, however, it has externally a resemblance. The common 

 Calcbasse is an extraordinary bearer, and on this account it is grown in some places 

 near London ; but if it should prove the same as the Andouille, it appears that it 

 would be valuable for drying.] 



" Conseiller de la Cour. — Tree very vigorous and an abundant bearer, well adapted 

 for a pyramid, the form which it naturally takes. Fruit — very large, obovate, usually 

 about four inches and three-fourths in height, and twelve inches in circumference. 

 Stalk — slender, woody, about three-fourths of an inch or from that to an inch in 

 length. Eye — sunk and open, frequently without any remaining segments of the 

 calyx. Skin — pale green, dotted with russet, with which it is more closely covered 

 near the stalk. Flesh — white, fine, juicy, half-buttery, with abundance of sugary and 

 agreeably perfumed juice. Season — end of October and November. One of Van 

 MoNs' seedlings [and, according to the Annales de Pomologic, it was named from the 

 circumstance of his son being Conseiller a la Cour d'Appel, of Brussels. The tree 

 bore for the first time about 1840.] 



Marie Parent. — Tree — moderately vigorous. It first produced fruit in 1S51. 

 — large, pyriform, with the surface uneven. Stalk — oblique, three-fourths of an 



