PEARS. 553 



Flesh, yellowish, melting, juicy, and sugary, with a rich and agreeably 

 perfumed juice. 



An excellent pear, of the highest merit ; ripe in November and 

 December. 



This is a seedling of Van Mons, which fruited at Louvain in 1843, the year 

 after his death, and was named in honour of the brother of King Leopold IL 



COMTE DE LAMY (Beurre Quetelet; Beurre Curtet; Dingier). 

 Fruit, below medium size ; roundish obovate. Skin, yellowish green, 

 with brownish red next the sun, and strewed with russety dots. Eye, 

 small, set in a slight depression. Stalk, an inch long, set in a small 

 cavity. Flesh, white, tender, buttery, melting, sugary, and richly 

 flavoured. 



A delicious pear ; ripe in October. Tree, hardy, a good bearer, and 

 succeeds well either as a standard or pyramid. It does not do well at 

 Teddington, for Mr. Blackmore says it is of " middling quality and 

 not worth growing." On the Weald of Sussex, and growing in soil 

 of the Hastings Sand formation, Mr. Luckhurst says "it is of an 

 eminently delicious flavour, worthy of the highest commendation, and 

 should find a place in every garden." 



Comte de Limoges. See Epine du Mas. 



COMTE DE PAKIS. Fruit, medium sized, three inches long, and 

 two and a half wide ; oblong-obovate, blunt at the apex, even and 

 regularly formed. Skin, rough, yellowish green, thickly dotted all over 

 with large grey russet dots and patches of russet, and an orange blush 

 next the sun. Eye, open, with short stunted segments, set in a slight 

 depression. Stalk, woody, green, three-quarters of an inch long, in- 

 serted on the apex without depression, and rather fleshy at the base. 



Flesh, yellowish, rather gritty, juicy, brisk, and sweet, with an 

 aromatic flavour. 



A good pear, of ordinary quality ; in use from October to December. 

 Mr. Blackmore says " it is very poor here." 



Comte Odart. See Beurre Benolt. 



COMTESSE D'ALOST. Large, three inches and three-quarters 

 long, and two inches and three-quarters wide ; pyriform, very much 

 the shape of Marie Louise. Skin, pale yellow, with a greenish tinge, 

 covered all over with large russety freckles, and with a coating of 

 russet round the eye. Eye, very small and open, set in a flat and 

 slight depression. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, stout and 

 woody, inserted on the apex of the fruit. Flesh, yellowish, coarse- 

 grained, and rather gritty, melting, juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured. 



A good pear ; ripe in November and December, but soon rots at 

 the core. 



I received this from M. Papeleu, of Wetteren, near Ghent, in 1847. 



