350 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



dian name of that town. The fruit is nearly round, or 

 roundish oblong ; the stalk long; of a yellowish russet 

 color. A valuable pear, and a great bearer. Ripe in 

 autumn. 



117. *PARADISE D'AUTOMNE. 



A fine new fruit, sent to England as Paradise d'Hiver, 

 large, oblong, or four inches long and two inches broad ; 

 rounded at the crown, calabash-formed; the eye small, 

 and not depressed, contracted towards the middle; the 

 stalk an inch and a half long, inserted on the summit ; of 

 a fine golden russety color, melting, of a sweet and de- 

 licious, aromatic flavor. The tree grows strong and up- 

 right, afterwards pendulous. The tree, like the Calebasse 

 and Bosc, to which this variety is nearly allied, is a 

 great bearer, as stated to me by Lee, of Hammersmith, of 

 whom I received the kind. The fruit ripens a fortnight 

 after the Williams Bon Chretien, and a fortnight previous 

 to the Louise Bonne de Jersey. 



118. PARMENTIER. Thompson. 



Middle-sized, obovate ; striped with bright red ; beurree 

 and excellent. October. [September?] 



119. PITFOUR. Mr. Knight. [E.] 



"A rich, melting pear ; season, November." Originated 

 by Mr. Knight, and sent by him, in 1832, to Mr. Lowell. 

 The fruit is large, oblong, pyramidally-formed ; color rus- 

 sety red. 



120. POIRE DE DUVERNY. [J.] 



Large and excellent; a new and half melting fruit; 

 ripening at Paris in October. 



121. POIRE D' ANANAS. Loudon. 



A fruit of medium size, very handsome, melting, with a 

 fine pine-apple flavor, (hence its name,) ripening in No- 

 vember, and considered in Belgium as one of their very 

 best kinds. 



122. POIRE DE MONS. [J.] 



A new fruit, of excellent quality, of medium size, and 

 ripening at Paris in November. 



123. POIRE DE LOUVAINE. Lindley. 



The fruit is middle-sized, pyramidal, uneven on its sur- 

 face; of a dull green color, mixed with yellow and spots 

 of russet ; the flesh very tender, slightly gritty, and full of 



