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This pear, when more fully known, mush attain a very great 

 popularity. Its great beauty is only equalled by its excellence. 

 The tree is vigorous, hardy, and productive, and has the remark- 

 able peculiarity of producing its fruit in the centre around the 

 body, seldom bearing on wood less than three years old. 



The fruit is of medium size, obovate pyriform, very smooth- 

 skinned, and free from stain or rust, ripening to a light, but rich 

 greenish yellow, and full of a sparkling, champagne-flavored juice, 

 melting, but not quite buttery. 



The number of its synonyms is indicative of its M'ide-spread 

 reputation in Europe, and we believe it \A'ill excel in this country, 

 as it is one of the very few varieties that have improved by im- 

 migration. 



On the Quince, it is a stocky, vigorous grower, but forms the 

 weakest union of all the varieties, not excepting the Bartlett. 

 The pear-stock is decidedly preferable for this variety. I have 

 not been able to detect any great change in the flavor produced 

 by growing on Quince, but it thus comes earlier to bearing, and is 

 more productive while young. 



Belle Lucrative. 



Bergamotte L,uc. I Seigneur d'Esperin. 



Beurre Luc. Fondante d'Automne. 



Bergamotte Fiev^e. | Groseilliere. 



OCTOBEE. 



A prolific variety, of great beauty, and of such excellence of 

 flavor as to obtain the highest praise from all pomologists. The 

 beauty of the fruit, "w^ell exposed to the sun, excites extravagant 

 admiration. The rich gold ground is irregularly mottled and 

 striped with red and purplish shades. The fruit, somewhat vari- 

 able, has a mean size, about equal to the Virgalieu : its shape is 

 uniformly roundish obovate, quite broad at base in proportion to its 

 height. The calyx is rather small, set in a broad, shallow basin; 

 the stem is little more than an inch in length, stout, often fleshy. 



I think this fruit combines the highest excellences of flavor and 

 texture. It is entirely melting, with a sugary, vinous flavor, and 

 most abundant juice, a thin skin, and small core. 



