THE PEAH. 725 



COLMAK DE MeESTER. 



Demeester. 



OrigiBated in Belgium. 



Fruit medium, roundish obtuse pyriform. Skin pale yellow, a few 

 nettings of russet, and sprinkled with many brown and green dots. Stalk 

 long, a little inclined. Calyx large, open. Flesh white, coarse, juicy, 

 half melting, slightly vinous. Scarcely good. October. 



COLMAR DES TnVALIDES. 



Poire des Invalide?. Va Deux Ans. 



Beurre de Printemps. Colmar Van Mons. 



Gros Colmar Van Mons. 



This Belgian Pear is said to have been raised at Enghien in 1808. 

 It is large and showy, but only valuable for cooking. Young wood red- 

 dish olive yellow brown. 



Fruit large, obtuse pyriform. Skin yellow, slightly marbled with 

 crimson in the sun, and sprinkled with russet and brown dots and traces. 

 Stalk rather short, set in a small cavity. Calyx large and open. Seg- 

 ments long, recurved. Flesh whitish, coarse, juicy, bi-eaking, sweet. 

 November to February. 



Colmar Epine. 



An agreeable juicy Pear, sent to this country by Van Mons, and 

 originated by him. Young shoots stout, upright, brown. 



Fru.it large, roundish oblong, tapering gradually to an obtuse point 

 at the stem, which is one inch long. Color greenish yellow. Flesh 

 white, sweet, melting, juicj^, and good. Middle of September. 



Coloree de Juillet. 



Originated in Rouen, France. 



Fruit below medium, obovate obtuse pyriform. Skin yellowish, with 

 a shade of brownish red in the suu, and small patches and dots of brown 

 I'usset. Stalk medium or stoiit, set in a shallow cavity. Flesh white, 

 half tender, juicy, a little gritty at core, sweet, perfumed. Good. July. 



Columbia, 

 Columbian Virgalieu. Columbia Virgalouse. 



The original tree grows on the farm of Mr. Casser, in Westchester 

 Co., N. Y. The tree grows upright. Young wood stout, upright, olive 

 brown. 



Fruit large, regularly formed, obovate, usually a little oblong, and 

 always broadest in the middle. Skin smooth and fair pale green in au- 

 tumn, but when ripe of a fine golden yellow, with occasionally a soft 

 orange tinge on its cheek, and dotted with small gray dots. Stalk 

 rather more than an inch long, slightly curved, placed towards one side 

 of a narrow depression. Calyx of medium size, partially open, set in a 

 very shallow basin. Flesh white, not very fine-grained, but' melting, 

 juicy, with a sweet ai'omatic flavor. Good, November to January. 

 Very apt to drop from the tree px-evious to ripening. 



