166 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



Size, medium, about two inches deep, and two and a half 

 in diameter ; Form, roundish oblate, irregular, with a ribbed 

 or angular outline, largest in the middle ; Skin, fair, smooth, 

 lemon yellow, mottled and dotted with bright red on the 

 sunny side, and covered with minute russet specks ; Stem, 

 long, about one and a half inches in length, moderately 

 stout, and inserted in a rather deep, open cavity; Eye, 

 medium size, open, and little depressed in a rather shallow, 



Fig. 14. Vesouziere. 



open basin ; segments of the calyx, rounded, short, project- 

 ing ; Flesh, yellowish white, coarse, melting and juicy ; 

 Flavor, sweet, agreeable, little perfumed and fine ; Core, 

 large, slightly gritty ; Seeds, medium size, obovate, sharply 

 pointed. Ripe in November. 



143. Beurre' Millet, (of Angers.) 



The Beurre Millet (Jig. 15) is another of the pears which 

 have not yet fruited in American collections, but of which 

 specimens were sent to the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 



