G60 THE PEAR. 



Fruit large, pyriform, slightly obtuse, surface uneven. Skin pale 

 yellow, with a warm brown red cheek in the sun, more or less marbled, 

 some dots and patches of i-usset brown. Flesh white, fine, juicy, mild, 

 sweet, musky, delicate perfume. Very good. Last of August and earlv 

 in September. 



Ananas d'Ete. 



Ananas (of Manning and of Leroy). Ananas Fran(;ais. 



Du Bouchet. Summer Pine-apple. 



Favori Musque. 



An old variety, from Holland, which here is one of our best late 

 summer or early autumn Pears. Tree very vigorous. Young shoot? 

 strong, of a rich reddish-yellowish brown, with prominent sharp-jjointed 

 bixds, and oblong white specks. 



Fruit rather large, pyriform, or occasionally obtuse at the stalk. 

 Skin pale yellow, with a little brown on one side, and much covered 

 with large, rough, brown russet dots. Stalk an inch and a quarter long, 

 inserted sometimes in a blunt cavity, sometimes without depressifm, by 

 the side of a lip. Calyx open, with short divisions. Basin shalloAv. 

 Flesh fine-grained, buttery, and melting, with a sweet, perfumed, and 

 high flavor. Very good. September and October. 



Andre Despobtes. 



Originated in the gardens of M. Andre Leroy, in France, 1854. 



Fruit medium, obovate obtuse pyriform, oblique. Skin gieenish 

 yellow, with patches of fawn and bronze in the sun. Flesh yellowish 

 white, fine, juicy, melting, granulous at the core, sugary acid. July, 

 (Leroy.) 



Andrews. 

 Beurre Oudinot ? Amory. Gibson. 



The Andrews is a favorite native seedling, found in the neighbor- 

 hood of Dorchester, and first introduced to notice by a gentleman of 

 Boston, whose name it bears. It is of excellent flavor, but variable and 

 subject to rot at the core. 



Fruit rather large, pyriform, one-sided. Skin smooth, and lather 

 thick, pale yellowish green, with a dull red cheek, and a few scattered 

 dots. Stalk about an inch and a qixarter long, curved, and set in a very 

 shallow, blunt depression, or often without depression. Calyx open, 

 placed in a small basin. Flesh gi-eenish white, full of juice, melting, 

 svith a fine vinous flavor. Good toA'ery good. Early in September. 

 The Beurre Oudinot, as we have received it, has always proved ideuticaj 

 with our Andrews, but Leroy claims it a distinct sort. 



Angi&lique de Bordeaux. 



Gros Franc Eeal d'Hiver. St. Martial. 



Cristalline. MoUe Bouche d'Hiver. 



A variety from France, 



Fruit medium, obtuse pyriform. Skin yellowish green in the shade, 

 brownish red in the sun, with brown dots. Stalk fleshy at insertion. 



