NEW FOEEIGN PEAPwS. 



inch in length, woody, and of a brown color. Eye — surrounded witli folds in a rather 

 large cavity. Skin — green, changing to a golden yellow when the fruit becomes fit 

 for use. Flesh — white, very fine, melting, somewhat buttery, very juicy, sugary, and 

 deliciously perfumed. Ripens in October. Raised by M. Bivort. [This sort is fig- 

 ured and described in the Annales de Pomologie Beige, Vol. L, p. 15. M. Bivort 

 states that it was raised by him in 1844, and that the seed was taken from fruit 

 gathered that year at Louvain, from a tree among the varieties resulting from the last 

 generation of seedlings raised bj Professor Van Mons, named in compliment to 

 Madame Parent, wife of the editor of the Annales de Pomologie^ 



" Bonne de la Chapelle. — The tree is of moderate vigor, and apparently very pro- 

 ductive. Fruit — middle-sized, roundish, or rather Bergamot-shaped, measuring two 

 and one-third inches from base to top, and two and three-fourths inches across. Stalk 

 — slender, and about an inch in length. Skin — light green, glossy, irregularly 

 sprinkled with small brown dots. Flesh — white, crisp, juicy, sugary, and perfumed. 

 Season — end of September. This sort was found by M. Jacques Jalais, gardener at 

 Nantes, in the wood of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, near Nantes, in 1845. 



" Bcurre de Wetteren. — Tree — vigorous, very thorny, suitable for a pyramid. It 

 bore for the first time in 184Y. Fruit — middle-sized, turbinate. Stalk — about an 

 inch in length, rather thick, slightly curved, with some small plaits around its inser- 

 tion. Eye — sunk in a wide, evenly-formed cavity. Skin — completely covered with 

 russet, and slightly colored next the sun. Flesh — fine, yellowish-white, half-melting, 

 buttery, with an abundant sugary, agreeably perfumed, musky juice. [In the An- 

 nales de Pomologie, where this sort is figured and described, p. 59, it is stated to have 

 been discovered by M. Louis Berkmans, in his garden at Heyst-op-den-Berg, among 

 a number of wild Pear trees, which were partly from his own sowings, and partly 

 from those of the late Major Esperen, of Mechlin.] 



"^o?^ Gustave. — Tree — vigorous, suitable for a pyramid. Fruit — middle-sized, 

 three and a half inches in length, and twelve inches in circumference, of a regular 

 pyriform shape. Stalk — nearly an inch in length, thick and woody. Eye — shallow 

 and open. Ground color of the skin light green ; but nearly the whole surface is rus- 

 seted. Flesh — white, fine, buttery, with a sugary, perfumed juice. A fruit of first 

 rate quality, ripening in December and January. 



"PotVe Prince Albert. — Tree — vigorous, and succeeds both on the Pear and Quince 

 stock. It naturally takes the pyramidal form. Fruit — middle-sized, pyriform, three 

 and a half inches in length and two inches and three-quarters in diameter. Stalk — 

 about an inch in length. Eye— small, open, placed in a shallow, evenly-rounded 

 cavity. Skin — very thick, smooth; ground color pale green, becoming yellowish 

 when ripe, sometimes slightly colored next the sun ; it is tinged with red near the 

 stalk, elsewhere distinctly marked with reddish spots and sprinkled with black dots. 

 Flesh — yellowish-white, fine, melting, with a rich sugary flavor. Season — February 

 and March. This delicious fruit was obtained by M. Bivort, from one of the trees 

 raised from seed by Dr. Van Mons, and which fruited for the first time in 1848. 

 " Van Marum Tree — vigorous, and an abundant bearer, suitable for a pyramid, 



