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sweet and very pleasant flavour. It is a fruit for amateurs, 

 but is also good for the market. It is cut in the first 

 week of September and matures in September-October. 



28. BELLE GUERANDAISE. The tree is vigorous, 

 with a marked pyramidal habit, prefers the sunshine, but 

 away from hot walls. It is very productive. The fruit 

 is large or very large, obtusely oval, with a thick and 

 depressed stalk. The colour is yellowish, intensely 

 dotted fawn. The flesh is white, very juicy and sugary, 

 and deliciously perfumed. Should be cut in the second 

 week of September and matures in September- October. 

 This is a first class fruit for amateurs, and is also a good 

 market sort, hardly ever producing any malformed fruit. 



29. SUMMER DUCHESSE DE BERRY. (M.~butira 

 ta Auuissu). The tree is fairly vigorous and well pro- 

 ductive, comes fast to bearing condition, and the produc- 

 tion is well sustained. Resists well to the tree borers, 

 and does well in full sunshine. The fruit is small or 

 middling, rather variable in shape, but usually rounded, 

 with a short thick stalk slightly depressed. The skin is 

 smooth, lemon yellow, often dotted fawn, with a large 

 and fine deep rose flush. The flesh is white, melting, of 

 exquisite quality. The fruit should be cut towards the 

 third week of August, and matures in August or in 

 September. Keeps well. This is a good market pear, 

 and is also a desirable pear for the amateur. 



AUTUMN PEARS. 



The fruit ripens in October or November. As 

 these pears are not picked from the tree before Septem- 

 ber, they must be put in bags by mid-August as a 

 measure of protection against the fruit fly. If put in 

 bags earlier the natural red flush of the fruit produced 

 by the action of the sun, will not form or will disappear 

 if already formed ; but this is a minor disadvantage as 

 compared with the risk which would be incurred by 

 leaving the fruit exposed to the ravages of the fly. 



