BEURRE' D'ANJOU PEAK. 



WOOD. Yellowish olive, dotted with pale gray specks, stout, and 

 short-jointed ; old wood, grayish olive ; buds large, short, ovate, diverging, 

 with rather prominent shoulders : Flower-huds large, bluntly obovate. 



LEAVES. Large, oblong, rounded at the base, and tapering regularly 

 to the point, recurved on the midrib, smooth, pale green, undulated, 

 folded inwards, and nearly entire on the edge; petioles rather long, 

 nearly two inches in length, stout. 



FLOWEKS. Medium size ; petals with a long claw and much cupped.. 



FRUIT. Large, about three and a half inches long, and three in 

 diameter : Form, oblong-obovate, full and rounded at the crown, nar- 

 rowing to an obtuse' point at the stem: Skin, fair, smooth, yellowish, 

 very broadly marked on the sunny side with dull red, much russetted 

 around the eye, and regularly covered with minute russety specks : 

 Stem, short, about half an inch long, always stout and thick, curved, 

 and obliquely inserted in a shallow cavity, formed by uneven swellings 

 and projections of the fruit : Eye, medium size, open, and depressed in 

 a small, round y regularly formed basin ; segments of the calyx con- 

 nected, thick, reflexed : Flesh, yellowish white, rather coarse, melting, 

 and very juicy : Flavor, rich, sprightly, vinous, highly perfumed, and 

 delicious : Core, small : Seeds, large, long, and pointed. 



RIPE in October and November, and keeps well. 



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