PEARS. 483 



EngliscJie Butterbirne). The fruit is pyriform, two and a half to three 

 inches long. Skin, pale yellow, covered with small red dots on the side 

 next the sun, and the whole surface thickly sprinkled with cinnamon- 

 coloured russet. Eye, open, and placed level with the surface. 

 Stalk, an inch to an inch and a half long, inserted on the end of the 

 fruit. Flesh, white, buttery, and melting, juicy, sweet, and pleasantly 

 flavoured. 



A good second-rate pear ; ripe in the end of September and October. 



A very old Belgian pear, which in the last edition of this work I stated erro- 

 neously had been raised by Noisette, of Paris. 



Angoise. See Winter Bon Chretien. 

 Angora. See Uvedales St. Germain. 

 Anjou Bagpipe. See Large Blanquet. 



ARBRE COURBE. Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and 

 four long; obovate, narrowing towards the stalk and the crown. Skin, 

 rough to the feel, from being considerably covered with rough, scaly 

 russet, on a bright green ground. Eye, small and open, with flat 

 spreading segments, and placed in a wide and rather shallow cavity. 

 Stalk, stout, three-quarters of an inch to an inch long, not depressed, 

 but placed on the end of the fruit, sometimes with a protuberance on 

 one side of it. Flesh, greenish immediately under the skin, fine- 

 grained, half buttery, melting, and juicy ; briskly flavoured, but with- 

 out much aroma. 



A good dessert pear, but hardly of first-rate quality. It is ripe in 

 the end of September, and continues during October. The tree does 

 not attain a large size, but is very productive, and succeeds well as a 

 standard. 



It is said to have been raised by Professor Van Mons about the year 1830, and 

 received its name from the circumstance of the stem inclining to grow in a hori- 

 zontal manner, and requiring the aid of a stake to keep it upright ; but according 

 to M. Lesueur's statement, which we extract from M. Decaisne's Jardin Fruitier 

 du Museum, it is not a seedling of Van Mons, but was raised by M. Leon Leclerc, 

 and propagated by Van Mons in 1833. 



Arbre Superbe. See Fondante d'Automne. 

 Archduke Charles. See Charles d'Autriche. 

 Archduke d'Ete. See Summer Archduke. 



ARCHIDUCHESSE D'AUTRICHE (Erzherzogiri). Fruit, below 

 medium size, two inches and a quarter wide, and two high ; Bergamot- 

 shaped, or rather roundish-turbinate. Skin, green at first, but be- 

 coming yellowish green as it ripens ; brownish red next the sun, 

 marked with a few thin streaks of deeper and brighter red, and on the 

 shaded side marked with large dots and freckles of cinnamon-coloured 

 russet. Eye, open, set in a wide shallow basin. Stalk, an inch and a 

 quarter long, straight, woody, and inserted in a small round cavity. 



