140 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



67. CALEBASSE FONDANTE. Nouveau Cours 

 Cumplet d Agriculture, Vol. xn. p. 124. 



The fruit is very much lengthened, knobby ; of a uni- 

 form red color; its flesh is melting, sugary, agreeable, so 

 far as I could judge from the fruits sent me by Van Mons. 

 It ripens the beginning of October, and grows soft soon 

 after. Bosc. 



68. CALEBASSE MARIANNE. Nouveau Cours 

 Complet d Agriculture, Vol. XH. p. 128. 



This fruit is very long ; about three inches in its trans- 

 verse diameter, rather narrow in its length; of an orange 

 color ; the stalk is short ; the flesh white, melting, very 

 sugary, and very perfumed. This is one of the best of all 

 pears. It very much resembles in its form a Calabash. 

 The tree is thorny. This pear is figured PI. 49 of the 

 Annales Generates des Sciences. Bosc. 



69. *CALEBASSE VASSE. 



Large, and calabash-formed ; oblong, and nearly allied 

 to the Beurre Bosc and Paradise d'Automne, and, like 

 them, covered with yellow russet ; melting and delicious. 

 A prodigious bearer. A fine new fruit, which I received 

 from Mr. Ronalds. October. 



70. *CAPIAUMONT. 



BEURRE DE CAPIACMONT. Pom. Mag. 



The young wood is brownish red; leaves folded and 

 recurved, and changing to red in autumn ; the fruit of 

 medium size, tapering pyramidally to the stalk, rounded 

 at the crown ; the eye level with the extremity ; stalk half 

 an inch long, inserted on the summit ; of a fine, clear 

 cinnamon color, changing to yellow in the shade, rich 

 bright red next the sun ; flesh yellowish, melting, beurree, 

 very rich, and highly-flavored. It ripens in October, and 

 grows equally well on the pear and the quince. The tree 

 bears astonishing crops, and is one of the most valuable 

 and profitable of all pears. Originated by M. Capiaumont, 

 of Mons. This is not the fruit so long known and mis- 

 called near Boston as the Capiaumont, that being the 

 Frederic de Wurtemberg. 



71. *CAPSHEAF. [A.] 



A large pear, of a globular form, inclining to turbinate; 

 of an orange russet color ; melting, buttery, sweet, and 

 rich-flavored. September and October. Highly esteemed 



