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almost level with the surface. Stalk, slender, half an inch long, 

 inserted in a small round cavity. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, coarse- 

 grained, rather sweet, and with a slight perfume. 



An inferior pear ; ripe in the beginning of November. The French 

 pomologists describe it as a variety of the first quality, and no doubt it 

 is so in that climate. 



It was raised by Major Esperen, of Malines, and first fruited in 1849. 



ALTHOKP. This variety is enumerated in the Catalogue of the 

 Horticultural Society as having once existed in the Society's Garden, 

 but now either lost or discarded as unworthy of cultivation. It is 

 described as of medium size, obovate shape, green on the shaded side, 

 and brown on the other. Flesh, buttery. 



It is of second-rate quality as a dessert pear, is ripe in November, 

 and the tree succeeds as a standard. 



ALTHORP CRAS ANNE. Fruit, rather above the medium size, 

 two inches and three-quarters wide, and two inches and a half high ; 

 roundish obovate, widest in the middle, and tapering gradually to the 

 apex, which is somewhat flattened, but rounding towards the stalk. 

 Skin, pale green, with a slight tinge of brown on the side exposed to 

 the sun, and covered with minute russety dots. Eye, rather large and 

 open, placed in a shallow and slightly plaited basin. Stalk, an inch 

 and a half long, slender, curved, and not deeply inserted. Flesh, 

 white, buttery, and juicy, with a rich and slightly perfumed flavour. 



A dessert pear of the finest quality, which ripens in October, and 

 continues in use till December. The tree is hardy, vigorous, and an 

 excellent bearer. 



It succeeds best as a standard, and is found to produce fruit of 

 superior quality even in soils that are unfavourable to the growth of 

 pears generally. 



This esteemed variety was raised by Mr. T. A. Knight, and first produced fruit 

 in 1830. Mr. Knight says : " As a dessert pear the Althorp Crasanne is, to my 

 taste, the best ; and its rose-water flavour will please where musk offends." 



AMADOTTE (Damadote ; Madot ; Dame Houdotte; L'Amadot 

 Musque d'Hiver ; Muskirte Winter amadot]. Fruit, medium sized, two 

 inches and three-quarters wide, and the same in height ; of a roundish 

 obovate shape, and flattened at the apex. Skin, thin, of a pale green 

 colour, which changes as it ripens to clear lemon yellow ; but where 

 exposed to the sun it is of a deeper yellow and faintly tinged with red. 

 In some parts it is thickly marked with rough brown russety dots, 

 particularly round the eye, and sometimes it is entirely covered with 

 fine cinnamon russet, except on some parts that are very much shaded, 

 and then the ground colour appears. Eye, half open, with long acu- 

 minate segments, and placed in a small and sometimes pretty deep 

 basin. Stalk, stout, an inch and three-quarters long, obliquely in- 

 serted on the summit of the fruit, with a fleshy protuberance on one 



