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a long time. It is also of fine size, the tree vigorous and 

 healthy, and a most abundant bearer. Young trees, only 

 four years planted, are completely covered with fruit buds : it 

 succeeds either upon the quince or pear stock. Wood, pale, 

 dull yellow. It can be recommended as well worthy a place 

 in every .collection of pears. 



Size^ large, about three inches long, and two and three 

 quarters in diameter : Form, oblong-obovate, full at the crown, 

 tapering to an obtuse point at the stem: Skin, fair, smooth, 

 yellowish, very broadly marked on the sunny side with dull 

 red, much russeted around the eye, and regularly covered with 

 minute russet specks : Stem, short, about half an inch long, 

 thick, curved, and obliquely inserted in a shallow cavity, 

 formed by uneven swellings and projections of the fruit : Bye, 

 medium size, open, depressed in a round, regularly formed 

 basin; segments of the calyx connected, reflexed, thick: 

 Flesh, yellowish-white, coarse, melting, and juicy : Flavor, 

 rich, vinous, and sprightly, with a fine aroma : Core, small : 

 Seeds, long, large, and pointed. Ripe in October and Novem- 

 ber. 



94. DucHEssE d'Orleans. Neio American Orchardist. 



The first account we have of this fine pear is that by Mr. 

 Kenrick, in the American Orchardist, (7th edition, 1S44.) 

 His authority for the name is M. Oudin, a nurseryman at 

 Lisieux in France, from whom, Ave believe, he purchased trees. 

 Mr. Kenrick's description is brief: nothing more is said of its 

 origin than that it had been " lately received from Normandy." 

 Mr. Kenrick, with his usual liberality, gave scions to the late 

 Mr. Manning, in whose collection it first fruited, in 1844 

 or 1845, and the younger Mr. Manning has fully confirmed 

 Mr. Kenrick's favorable notice of it, in a short description of 

 the fruit, from specimens produced in his garden, in our vol- 

 ume for 1846, (XII. p. 147.) Since then, we have had sev- 

 eral opportunities of tasting the fruit from Mr. Manning's col- 

 lection, and we fully agree in all the encomiums which have 

 been bestowed upon it. 



The Duchesse d'Orleans, {fig. 23,) is a very handsome pear, 

 having a fine yellow skin, mottled with golden russet. The 



