154 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



138. SUPER FONDANTE. Thompson. 

 Middle-sized, obovate ; of a pale yellow color ; beurree 



and excellent. It resembles the White Doyenne. It 

 ripens in September. 



139. THOMPSON'S. Thompson. Rivers. 



A new Flemish fruit, and so named by the London 

 Horticultural Society, for Mr. Robert Thompson. Of 

 medium size, obovate form ; pale yellow ; remarkably 

 juicy, with a high flavor, resembling the Passe Colmar. 

 November. 



140. TILLINGTON. Lond. Hort. Trans. [E.] 



A new variety, raised by Mr. Knight, and sent by him, in 

 1822, to the Hon. John Lowell. Middle-sized, turbinate, 

 rounded at the crown ; the stalk short, fleshy ; color dull 

 brick dust red next the sun ; the whole russeted. The 

 flesh white, nearly beurree, a little gritty; sweet, rich, 

 though not very juicy. November. 



141. TRIOMPHE DE LOUVAINE. [J.] 



A new and very superior fruit, of medium size, melting 

 and fine, and ripening at Paris in October. 



142. *URBANISTE. 



BEURREE DU Roi of some. 



A new and most superior variety, raised by the Comte de 

 Coloma, of Malines. The fruit is rather large and oblong ; 

 pyramidally ovate; very regular; the eye slightly de- 

 pressed ; the stalk an inch long, moderately and obliquely 

 sunk; color pale green, inclining to yellow, small gray 

 patches of russet dispersed over its surface; the flesh 

 white, but reddish yellow next the core, which is large 

 and a little gritty ; it is quite melting, juicy, and very 

 sweet, with a x little perfume. This variety was sent bv 

 Mr. Knight to the Hon. John Lowell in 1823, and has 

 been by him liberally disseminated. It proves, with us, 

 one of the very finest and most valuable of autumn pears. 

 It ripens the middle of September, and keeps till December. 

 A tree imported from France, in 1822, by John Prince, 

 Esq., of Roxbury, under the name of Beurre du Roi, and 

 on a quince stock, has proved a most excellent bearer, 

 and a very first-rate fruit. The tree, the leaf, and the 

 fruit, are evidence that it is no other than the Urbaniste ; 

 its legitimate title having been suppressed in France, and 

 a new one usurped in honor of Charles X. 



