WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. 



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Beurre Diel — Diel's Butter. 



Diel, 



Diel's Butterbirne, 

 Dorothee Royal, 

 Grosse Dorothee, 

 Beurre Royal, 



Des Trois Tours, 

 De Melon. 

 Melon de Kops, 

 Beurre Magnifique, 

 Beurre Incomparable. 



Foreign. Grows 

 and fruits well on 

 pear or quince, 

 but ' is best on 

 quince ; tree, vig- 

 orous, the foliage 

 large; wood, olive 

 brown with gray- 

 ish specks ; very 

 productive. 



Fruit large, (our 

 engravinar is too 

 small for an av- 

 erage, ) obovate, 

 obtuse pyriform, 

 surface rather 

 uneven ; color, 

 dull green, bright 

 yellow when 

 in a t u re, russet 

 specks, and scat- 

 tered russet and 

 gieenish brown 

 patches; stem, 

 stout, and slightly 

 curved ; cavity, 

 narrow ; calyx, medium, open, long segments ; basin, abrupt ; core, 

 large; seeds, dark brown \Jlesh^ yellowish white, rather coarse, espe- 

 cially near the core ; juicy, mcjlting, perfuined. Season, October to 

 last November. 



Brandtwine. 



American, from the banks of the Brandy wine river. Tier^ 

 thrifty, rapid grower, long upright shoots, regular and abundant 

 bearer ; fruit, medium, varying in form, generally obovate pyri- 

 form, running into the stem, which is fleshy and rather obliquely set; 

 color, dull yellowish green, marked with russet dots and streaks, 

 and much russeted about eye ; calyx., open, segments few ; basin 

 smooth, moderate depth ; core, small, compact ; seeds, few, dark 

 brown ; fiesh, white, melting, juicy, vinous. Season, last of August, 

 first of September. 

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