164 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



its fruit. A large pear of a yellow color, with a very short 

 stalk. A middling fruit only for the table, but an excel- 

 lent baking pear. A most extraordinary bearer, and recom- 

 mended for extensive cultivation. 



181. *PASSE COLMAR. 



FONDANTE DE PANiSEL, ) of Van Mons, according to Pom. 



PASSE COLMAR EPINEUSE, ) Mag. 



BECRRE COLMAR DIT PRECEL. Ifort.^Soc.Cat. 



FONDANTE DE MONS. Thompson. D'ANANAS. Ib. 



COLMAR HARDENPONT. Ib. MAHOTTE SUCRE JAUNE. 

 A most superior new pear, raised by Counsellor Harden- 

 pont, at Mons. This variety was sent by Mr. Knight to the 

 Hon. John Lowell, in 1823, and has been by him liberally 

 disseminated. The fruit is middle-sized, conical, flattened 

 at the crown; the stalk an inch long, moderately thick, 

 slightly sunk ; the skin at maturity yellowish, sprinkled 

 with russet, stained with red next the sun ; the flesh yel- 

 lowish, melting, beurree, juicy, very rich, and most excel- 

 lent. With us it proves a most delicious variety, and very 

 extraordinarily productive. John Prince, Esq., of Roxbury, 

 exhibited, in 1830, a branch two feet in length, containing 

 thirty-one pears, and weighing nine and a half pounds. It 

 ripens in November, and may be preserved till February, 

 and is recommended for extensive cultivation. 



182. PENGETHLY. Mr. Knight. [E.] 



"A large, dark brown pear, quite new, and now ripe." 

 This pear was originated by Mr. Knight, and scions were 

 sent by him in February, 1832, to Mr. Lowell and the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural Society. 



183. PETRE. [A.] Philad. Hort. Trans. Col. Carr. 



This native fruit is " large, fair, melting, and of delicious 

 flavor. It ripens in September, and keeps till late in win- 

 ter." " The tree was planted by the elder John Bartram, 

 in 1735, and has been in full bearing seventy years, and 

 has probably yielded four hundred bushels of fruit, which 

 has frequently sold for $5 a bushel." 



184. POIRE DE BOULOGNE. [J.] 



New, large, and valuable ; flesh breaking ; a winter fruit. 



185. PRESENT DE MALINES. Braddick. London. 

 Rather large ; somewhat Bon Chretien shaped, smooth, 



and of a beautiful yellow throughout ; a melting pear, of a 

 rich and musky flavor, and excellent quality. The tree 



