WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. 



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pears for all collections, either on pear or quince ; a fine grower, 

 with diverging, dark gray shoots ; productive. 



Fruit, large, roundish obovate ; color, greenish yellow, becoming 

 yellow ; stem, rather stout ; cavity, narrow ; calyx, with short, stiff^ 



connected segments, half reflexed ; basin, medium, regular ; core, 

 medium ; seeds, ovate pyriform, blackish ; flesh, white, half buttery, 

 juicy, sweet, aromatic. Season, September. Even windfalls of this 

 variety are extremely fine. 



SUMMER PINEAPPLE 



Ananas d Ete, | Ananas of some, 

 Poire Ananas. 



Foreign. A superior variety that deserves extensive planting. 

 Tree, vigorous, dark brown wood, early, regular bearer, fruit always 

 large and excellent. 



Fruit, large, oblong, obovate pyriform, angular ; color, dull yel 

 lowish green, with much rough brown russet marbling ; stem, largest 

 at base, or where it joins the fruit, and with a lip one side ; calyx, 

 open, short divisions ; basin, shallow, open ; core, compact, capsules 

 small ; seeds, long ovate ; flesh, whitish, fine-grained, buttery, melt- 



