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very juicy and sweet, but with a watery and not highly-flavoured 

 juice. 



A cooking pear ; in use from November to January. 



Raised by M. Duquesne at Enghein, in 1808, and named by him ColmarVan 

 Mons, under which name it appears in Van Mons' catalogue, 2nd series, No. 52, 

 " par M. Duquesne." Why it should be called Colmar des Invalides I do not 

 know, unless it be that when stewed it is food for invalids. 



COLUMBIA. Fruit, large, three inches and a half long, and three 

 inches wide ; oblong-obovate. Skin, smooth, of a fine golden yellow, 

 dotted with large russet dots, which are interspersed with smaller ones. 

 Eye, large and open, with erect segments, and sunk in a narrow 

 depression. Stalk, an inch long, thick and fleshy, curved, and set on 

 the apex of the fruit. Flesh, buttery and melting, sweet and perfumed, 

 but without any remarkable flavour. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in October and November. 



An American variety, raised in West Chester, Co, New York. 

 Cornice. See Doyenne du Cornice. 

 Cornice de Toulon. See Vicar of Winkfield. 

 Common Bergamot. See Autumn Bergamot. 



COMPERETTE (Colmar Musque). Fruit, below medium size, two 

 inches and three-quarters long, and two inches and a quarter wide ; 

 obovate. Skin, smooth, greenish yellow, but becoming lemon-yellow, 

 strewed with patches and dots of russet. Eye, quite small, with narrow 

 segments, half open, and set in a narrow depression. Stalk, stout, 

 three-quarters of an inch long, inserted on the apex of the fruit. 

 Flesh, buttery, melting, juicy, and sweet, with a musky flavour. 



A good pear, but not of high merit ; ripe in the end of October. 



I cannot trace the origin of this pear. It is in Van Mons' Catalogue, 3rd series, 

 under No. 281, without any remark. 



COMTE D'EGMONT. Fruit, small ; obovate or turbinate, even in 

 its outline. Skin, lemon-yellow, and entirely covered with dots of a 

 fine reddish brown russet, which in some parts are so dense as to form 

 an irregular patch, particularly round the eye. Eye, small and open, 

 with short erect segments, and placed in a shallow depression. Stalk, 

 woody and stout, inserted without depression. Flesh, yellow, melting, 

 somewhat gritty, very rich, sugary, and delicious. 



A first-rate little pear ; ripe in the end of October and beginning of 

 November. 



COMTE DE FLANDRE (St. Jean Baptise). Fruit, very large ; 

 pyriform. Skin, almost entirely covered with large freckles of cin- 

 namon-coloured russet. Eye, open, and rather large, with very short, 

 deciduous segments. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, slender. 



