204 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



tree is vigorous and hardy, and has somewhat of an irregular 

 spreading habit, though, when young, the branches grow up- 

 right. It is also a good bearer. Wood, greenish-yellow, with 

 prominent buds. 



Size, large, about three and a half inches long, and two 

 and a half in diameter : Form, regular, pyramidal, full at 



Fig.'i^. Duchessed' Orleans. 



the crown, little contracted in the middle, and tapering to the 

 stem : Skin, slightly rough, light yellow, mottled with golden 

 russet in the shade, thinly marked with red in the sun, and 

 sparsely covered with small russet specks : Stem, long, about 

 one and a quarter inches in length, rather stout, swollen at 

 the end adjoining the tree, straight, and obliquely inserted in 



