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cavity. Flesh, coarse-grained, sweet, and perfumed, but not possessing 

 any special merit. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in the end of September and beginning of 

 October. 



The tree is an excellent bearer, succeeds well as a standard, and 

 may be grown with equal success either on the pear or the quince. 



It was raised by Van Mons, arid named in honour of M. de Bavay, a nurseryman 

 at Vilvorde, near Brussels ; but being received by the Horticultural Society of 

 London from the raiser without a name, it became known in the collection of that 

 establishment as Autumn Colmar, from a fancied resemblance of the flavour to that 

 of the Old Colmar. 



AUTUMN JOSEPHINE. Fruit, even and regular in its outline, 

 turbiuate, and somewhat flattened at the crown. Skin, greenish 

 yellow when quite ripe, and strewn with patches of thin pale brown 

 russet, and with a russet patch round the stalk. Eye, open, with short 

 erect segments, and set in a shallow depression. Stalk, three-quarters 

 of an inch long, woody, and inserted without depression. Flesh, 

 yellowish, with a pale salmon tinge, like that of Josephine de Malines, 

 tender, fine-grained, and very juicy. Juice, rich, sugary, and with a 

 fine aromatic flavour. 



A pear of uncertain merit ; ripe in the middle of October, and lasting 

 about a fortnight. The tree is an excellent grower, and forms a large 

 head. 



This was obtained from seed by W. E. Essington, Esq., of Ribbesford House, 

 Bawdley. The seed, which was obtained from Josephine de Malines, was sown in 

 the year 1856, and scions from the seedling were grafted on the stock of a 

 worthless pear-tree, which had been cut down in 1861, and first produced fruit in 

 1869. 



AUTUMN NELIS (Graham's Autumn Nelis). Fruit, the size of a 

 large Winter Nelis ; obovato-turbinate in shape. Skin, entirely covered 

 with brown russet, with here and there a patch of the greenish yellow 

 shining through. Flesh, yellowish, very tender, melting, and buttery, 

 with a rich sugary juice. 



A first-rate pear ; ripe in October, but soon decays. The tree is very 

 hardy and a great bearer. 



AVOCAT ALLARD. A cooking pear, raised by M. Gregoire, of 

 Jodoigne. 



AVOCAT NELIS. A medium sized pear, of a turbinate shape, deep 

 yellow colour considerably covered with russet, and with a juicy, sweet, 

 and perfumed flesh. It is only of second-rate quality, and is in use 

 from January till April. 



B'AVEIL. Fruit, large, pyramidal, uneven in its outline, and 

 considerably bossed round the eye. Skin, smooth and shining, of a 

 lively dark green colour, with a dark brown tinge next the sun, and 

 patches of ashy-grey russet on the shaded side ; the whole surface 



