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VARIETIES. 



Gray Benrr^, 

 Golden Beurr^, 

 Beurre du 11 oi, 

 Isambert, 



Beurre Brown. 



Brown Butter, 

 Beurre d'Amboisc, 

 Beurrti d'or, 

 Ked Beurre, 



SEPTEMBER. 



Beurre Eouge, 

 Beurre Doree, 

 B. de Treveuren, 

 Bemre Butter. 



These are but few of the synonyms of this once popular Pear. 

 When in perfection it takes the first rank for melting, buttery 

 texture, abundance of juice and delicious sub-acid flavor, but it is 

 the very chameleon of Pears, and is so uncertain that but few can 

 reasonably hope to ever bring it to its highest excellence. 



Fruit, rather large, oblong obovate, stem and flesh meeting 

 without shoulder or basin ; skin, a little rough and rusty, and 

 color " such as the gods please." Unfit for general cultivation. 



Delices de Hardenpont, of Belgium. 



N O V E il B E E AXD D E C E SI B E E . 



The Tree is described by Berkmans as feeble and unhealthy in 

 Belgium ; but gro^^-ing much better in this country, where it is 

 still not very vigorous. Shoots long and upright. 



Fruit regularly pyramidal, tending to turbinate, sometimes 

 angular; stem short, thick; skin rather rough : yellowish green 

 when ripe. Flesh buttery, melting, very juicy, sweet and highly 

 perfumed. 



Beurre Hardy. 



Beurre Sterkman. 



SEPTEMBEE AND OCTOBEE. 



Fruit large, obovate p^Tiform, one-sided like the Beurre d'Anjou, 

 light reddish green, with bro\\Tiish spots : stem stoutish, of medium 

 length, inclined, set in a moderate cavity with a high shoulder on the 

 larger side ; calyx much spread : basin broad and shallow ; buttery, 

 melting with great quantity of rich, sparkling, vinous, perfumed 

 juice. The tree grows vigorously on both pear and quince. 



