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Tree medium in size and vigor, upright, very hardy and very productive; trunk and 

 branches medium in thickness and smoothness; branchlets slender, short, light brown 

 mingled with green, smooth, glabrous, with numerous, small, raised lenticels. Leaf- 

 buds small, short, plump, free; leaf-scars with prominent shoulders. Leaves 3 in. long; 

 if in. wide; apex taper-pointed; margin glandless, finely serrate; petiole if in. long. Flower- 

 buds small, short, sharply pointed, free, singly on short spurs. 



Fruit ripe December to January; large, obovate-pyriform, ribbed; stem i in. long, 

 thick, fleshy at the base, obliquely inserted; cavity lacking, drawn up in an oblique lip 

 about the stem; calyx small, closed; lobes short, sometimes lacking; basin deep, smooth; 

 skin roughish, thick, uneven; color yellow, with patches and tracings of russet especially 

 around the calyx end; dots numerous, cinnamon-russet; flesh white, very juicy, melting, 

 vinous or acidulous; quality very good. Core large; seeds large, roundish, plump. 



BEURRE BOSC 



i. Kenrick Am. Orch. 161. 1832. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 358, fig. 152. 1845. 3. Proc. Nat. 

 Cong. Fr. Or. 29, 51. 1848. 4. Hovey Fr. Am. 1:65, PI. 1851. 5. Ann. Pom. Beige 5:79, PI. 1857. 

 6. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:320, fig. 1867. 7. Hogg Fruit Man. 514. 1884. 



Base's Butterbirne. 8. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:100. 1856. 



Beurre d'Apremont. 9. Pom. France i: No. 26, PI. 26. 1863. 10. Mas Le Verger 3: Pt. 2, 65, fig. 

 129. 1866-73. n. Guide Prat. 48, 230. 1895. 



Base. 12. Am. Pom. Sac. Cat. 36. 1883. 



Base's Flaschenbirne. 13. Lauche Deut. Pom. II: No. 75, PI. 75. 1883. 14. Mathieu Nam. Pom. 

 188. 1889. 15. Deut. Obstsorten 2: Pt. 5, PI. 1906. 



The fruits of Beurre Bosc merit unqualified praise. They are nearly 

 flawless in every character. The pears at once receive approbation from 

 all who see them by virtue of their uniquely beautiful color and shape, in 

 which characters they are wholly unlike any other pear. The shape is 

 pyriform, with a very long, tapering neck, perfectly symmetrical and 

 unequalled in trimness of contour. The color is a dark rich yellow over- 

 spread with cinnamon-russet, with here and there a spot of the yellow ground 

 color visible. The quality is rated by all as " very good " or " best;" the 

 Seckel alone surpasses it as a dessert fruit in the estimation of most pear 

 fanciers. The flesh, while slightly granular, is tender and melting or almost 

 buttery, very juicy, with a rich piquant flavor and a pleasing aroma. The 

 fruits seldom crack, scab, or mildew. The characters of the tree fall far 

 short of those of the fruits. Nurserymen complain that it is difficult to 

 propagate the trees as they make a poor growth in the nursery and come to 

 transplanting age with a root system of two or three prongs almost devoid 

 of fibrous roots. The trees must be humored in soil and climate, and under 

 favorable conditions make but moderate growth as young plants. Estab- 

 lished trees in suitable soils, however, surpass most of their neighbors in 



