PEARS. 579 



Fondante des Bois. See Flemish Beauty. 



FONDANTE DE BREST (Inconnue Cliencaii ; Cassante de Brest; 

 Beaute Hdtive). Fruit, medium sized ; pyriform. Skin, thin, smooth, 

 and shining, bright green, changing to yellowish green as it ripens on 

 the shaded side, and red, mottled dark blood red, next the sun, marked 

 with grey dots. Eye, small and open, with slightly incurved segments, 

 and set in a slight depression. Stalk, an inch and a half long, fleshy 

 at the insertion, in a shallow depression. Flesh, white, firm, and crisp, 

 and of a sweet, pleasant, and rose-water flavour. 



A dessert pear, of no merit ; ripe in September. The tree is very 

 vigorous, and an excellent bearer ; succeeds well as a standard either 

 on the pear or quince stock, particularly the latter, as it checks to a 

 great extent its excessive vigour. 



FONDANTE DE CHARNEU (Belle Excellent ; Beurre des Char- 

 neuses; Desiree Van Mow ; Due de Brabant; De Legipont; Merveille 

 de Chnnu'u : Miel de Waterloo). Fruit, large, sometimes very large, 

 the ordinary size being two inches and a half wide, and three inches 

 and a half long ; pyriform, uneven in its outline. Skin, smooth, pale 

 greenish yellow, with a faint tinge of red on the side next the sun, and 

 thickly strewed with large russet dots. Eye, large and open, with 

 erect acute segments, set in a shallow uneven basin. Stalk, upwards 

 of an inch long, slender, curved, and inserted without depression by 

 the side of a fleshy lip. Flesh, tender, buttery, and melting, sugary, 

 and richly flavoured. 



An excellent pear ; ripe in November. 



This was discovered as a wilding by M. Legipont growing on his property at 

 Charneu, a village between Verviers and Aix la Chapelle, in the province of Liege, 

 Belgium, in the beginning of the present century. 



FONDANTE DU COMICE. Fruit, above medium size, even and 

 regular in its outline. Skin, of an uniform shade of yellowish or pea 

 green, dotted with distinct russet dots, and covered with patches of 

 grey russet ; sometimes it has a faint tinge of red on one side. Eye, 

 open, small, with erect acute segments, set in a very deep and smooth 

 round basin. Stalk, straight, stout, and woody, also green like the 

 skin, from half an inch to an inch long, and inserted obliquely, with a 

 fleshy lip on one side of it. Flesh, crisp, and very juicy, sugary and 

 rich, and with that cold acidulous juice which is met with in St. Ger- 

 main and Beurre d'Aremberg. 



An excellent pear ; ripe in the beginning of November, but Mr. 

 Blackmore says it is not to be compared to Doyenne du Cornice. 



FONDANTE DE CUERNE. Fruit, medium size; obovate. Skin, 

 pale yellow, having the appearance of being blanched, like White 

 Doyenne, smooth, and strewed with very minute brown dots, so small 

 as to be hardly visible, and with sometimes a patch of cinnamon- 

 coloured russet on some part of its surface. Eye, small and open, 



