PEAES. 563 



Dr. Udale's Warden. See Uvedale's St. Germain. 



DONVILLE (Poire de Provence; Caloi). Frait, medium sized; 

 pyriform. Skin, smooth and shining green, at first grass-green, 

 changing as it attains maturity to a tine lemon-yellow, and marked 

 with brown dots on the shaded side, with a tinge of dark lively red 

 strewed with small grey dots next the sun. Eye, open, set in a small 

 slightly plaited basin. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, some- 

 times fleshy at the base, and inserted in a small cavity. Flesh, white, 

 breaking, tender, and not gritty, with a sweet subacid and pleasant 

 flavour. 



An excellent culinary pear ; ripe from December to March. The 

 tree is hardy, but not a large grower ; a good bearer, and succeeds well 

 either on the pear or quince as a standard. Calvel considers this the 

 same as the St. Pere of Dubamel, which he says is under a double 

 denomination in the garden of the Museum of Natural History to 

 signify the same pear. 



DOROTHEE ROYALE NO UVELLE. Fruit, about medium sized ; 

 pyriform, uneven, and bossed in its outline. Skin, smooth, of an 

 uniform clear deep lemon-yellow, with here and there a patch of 

 cinnamon russet. Eye, open, with stout erect segments, set in a 

 shallow basin. Stalk, an inch long, stout, inserted in a small hole. 

 Flesh, very fine, melting, very juicy, and rich. 



A first-rate pear, like a delicious Marie Louise ; ripe in the end of 

 October. 



Dorothee Roy ale. See Beurre Diel. 

 Double Calyce. See Deux Tetes. 



DOUBLE FLEUR (Double B losso ?>?). Fruit, above medium size ,-. 

 round and flattened. Skin, smooth, green, becoming yellow at maturity, 

 reddish brown next the sun, and strewed with small dots and markings 

 of russet. Eye, small, set in a wide and shallow basin. Stalk, 

 three-quarters of an inch long, set in a small cavity. Flesh, crisp 

 and juicy. 



An excellent culinary pear ; ripe from January to April. The tree 

 is very vigorous and hardy, succeeds as a standard either on the pear 

 or quince, and is a good bearer. 



Double Philippe. See Doyenne Boussoch. 

 Downham Seedling. See Hacon's Incomparable. 



DOWNTON. Fruit, medium sized, three inches long, and two and 

 a half wide ; oval, somewhat bossed in its outline. Skin, with greenish 

 yellow ground, very much covered with patches and veins of dark and 

 pale brown russet, particularly on the side next the sun, where it is 

 completely covered and assumes a reddish brown tinge ; in some parts 



