558 THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



De la Motte. See Besi de la Motte. 



De Lavault. See Williams' 's Bon Chretien. 



Delbart. See Beurre d'Amanlis. 



De Legipont. See Fondante de Charneu. 



Delfosse Bourgmestre. See Beurre Delfosse. 



Delices d'Hardenpont d' Angers. See Delices d 1 Angers. 



DELICES D'ANGERS (Beurre Lasalle; Beurre des Hautes Vignes ; 

 Delices d'Hardenpont d 1 Angers; Fondante duPanisel). Fruit, medium 

 sized ; roundish obovate, uneven and bossed in its outline. Skin, 

 pale yellow, with a tinge of clear red next the sun, strewed with 

 russety dots and patches of rough grey russet. Eye, small and open. 

 Stalk, short and thick, obliquely inserted in a small cavity, and fleshy 

 at the base. Flesh, white, rather coarse-grained, juicy, sweet, and 

 agreeably perfumed. 



Ripe in October and November. 



DELICES EVER ARD. Fruit, small, two inches and half wide, 

 and the same in length ; roundish turbinate. Skin, smooth and 

 shining, uniform bright yellow, considerably marked with dots and 

 specks of russet. Eye, small, with erect deciduous segments, set in 

 a shallow basin. Stalk, short, set level with the surface. Flesh, with 

 a salmon tint, like Josephine de Malines, quite tender, buttery, and 

 melting, very juicy, with a sweet delicious flavour and fine perfume. 



A dessert pear of great excellence ; ripe in October, and will keep 

 till February. 



It was raised by M. Gabriel Everard, a gardener at Tournay, in 1840, and it 

 received a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1875. I 

 received it from De Jonghe of Brussels in 1865. 



DELICES DE FRO YENNES. Fruit, medium sized, about three 

 inches wide, and three and a half long ; ovate or roundish obovate. 

 Skin, entirely covered with rough brown russet. Eye, open, set nearly 

 level with the surface. Stalk, an inch long, stout, fleshy at the base, 

 inserted on the apex of the fruit without depression. Flesh, tender, 

 melting, and very juicy, vinous, and with a fine perfume. 



Ripe in November ; of great excellence. The tree is a free grower, 

 forms a handsome pyramid, and is an abundant bearer. 



It was raised by M. Isidore Degand, gardener to Comte de Germiny, at 

 Froyennes, near Tournay, and was honoured by the Society of Tournay, 5th 

 November, 1853. 



DELICES D'HARDENPONT. Fruit, large, three inches and a 

 quarter long, and over two inches and a half wide ; oblong-obovate, 

 blunt at the stalk, irregular and uneven in its outline, narrowing from 

 the bulge to the eye. Skin, smooth, at first bright green, changing as 



