250 



VARIETIES. 



NOUVEAU POITEAU. 

 NO VEMBBE. 



Fig. 105. 



A vigorous, handsome tree, the fruit of which. Colonel Wilder's 

 description, in 1850, has not too highly colored. In size, the fruit 

 often nearly equals the Bartlett : ohtuse pyriform. somewhat 

 sunken near the neck; stem short, stoutish, set without any 

 depression: calyx very open, with the parts turned hack. The 



