Notes and Gleanings. 



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Josephine de Binche Pear. — This variety was found in a seed plot of 

 Josephine de Mahnes made in 1851, and bore fruit for the first time in 1864. 

 It is to M. le Chevalier Biseau d'Hauteville, a distinguished pomologist at 

 Binche, that we are indebted for this fine acquisition. 



JOSEPHINE DE BINCHE PEAR. 



The tree is very vigorous and very fertile ; form regularly pyramidal ; branches 

 robust, smooth, of a yellowish-brown pointed with grayish dots. 



The fruit is of medium size, globular, much swollen, and flattened at the base, 

 narrowing but little towards the summit ; the eye is large, deeply sunken. The 

 skin is fine, laved and reticulated with brown on a clear yellowish ground. The 

 flesh is half-fine, half-melting, of an exquisite perfumed flavor ; the juice is very 

 abundant and very sugary. It is decidedly of the first quality, and ripens from 

 the end of October to the end of December. 



