Descriptions of Three New Pears. 



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The fruit is large, being eight and a half centimetres in 

 height, and seven and a quarter in diameter : it is obovately 

 formed, swelled out at the crown, diminishing much to the 

 stem, regular, with an even surface : stem, very short, being 

 only half a centimetre in length, slightly oblique and curved: 

 the eye is small, closed, and inserted in a very large and mod- 

 erately deep basin : skin, thick, greenish-yellow, gray around 

 the stem, marbled and pointed with the same color all over 



F{^. 28. Doyen Dillen Pear. 



the surface : flesh, fine, melting and tender : juice, very 

 abundant, sugary, vinous, and agreeably perfumed. Ripens 

 in October and November. It is a fine pear, of first quality. 

 The tree is of a rather feeble habit, moderately vigorous 

 upon the quince : the branches are few in number, those at 

 the base diverging, and those at the top erect, and often take 

 the direction of the stem : the wood is gray, covered with 



