VAEIETEES. 



Fig. 90. 



Beurre Bosc. 



Bosc's Haschenbirne. 



NO VEMBEE. 



A most "beautiful, tapering 

 p>Tiform fruit, with a thin, long 

 neck; and long curved stem. It 

 is of the highest excellence, the 

 best of the Van Mons Seedlings : 

 but it is feeble in growth and 

 constitution, especially when 

 young. Shoots dark brown, thin 

 and long. The fruit is borne 

 somewhat thinly over the tree, 

 never in clusters, is a rich russet 

 brown, but- 

 tery, melt- 

 ing, of most 

 deliciousfla- 

 vor, white 

 flesh, pecu- 

 liar shape, 

 which once 



seen, cannot 

 be mistaken. 



