102 NOTES ON SOME VARIETIES OF PEARS. 
Beurré Duval.—Van Mons. 
Fruit below medium size, pyramidal, regularly formed and some- 
what undulating in its outline. Skin slightly rough to the feel from 
the coarse spots of russet with which it is covered. It is very much 
of the colour of Bishop's Thumb, being a reddish-brown, and rather 
of a rusty appearance. On the shaded side it is greenish-yellow, 
covered with freckles of brown russet, and with a considerable coating 
Cw 
of russet on the end towards the eye. 
obliquely inserted under a fleshy lip. 
with z Fl 
When compared with th 
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