PEARS. 607 



inserted without depression. Flesh, white, buttery, and melting, with 

 a rich, sugary, and brisk vinous flavour. 



A most delicious pear ; ripe in October. The tree is a good bearer, 

 and succeeds well as a pyramid on the quince. 



Triis valuable pear was raised at Avranches about the year 1788, by M. 

 Longueval, who at first named it simply " Louise," but subsequently added Bonne, 

 and it thenceforth became known as "Bonne Louise d'Avranches." The original 

 tree is still in existence in the garden where it was raised. 



LOUISE BONNE D'AVRANCHES PANACHEE. This is pre- 

 cisely identical with the preceding, except that it is variegated in the 

 wood and the fruit with golden stripes. It is a very beautiful fruit, 

 and is equally as highly flavoured as the normal form. It originated 

 as a bud sport. 



LOUISE D'ORLEANS. Fruit, rather large, three inches and a 

 quarter long, and two and a half wide, long obovate, inclining to 

 pyriform, even in its outline, terminating at the apex with an abrupt 

 concave curve, which gives it the appearance of a snout. Skin, smooth, 

 greenish yellow, entirely covered with large mottles of grey russet. 

 Eye, small and open, set on one side of the axis, and generally on the 

 side opposite to that on which the stalk is inclined. Stalk, three- 

 quarters of an inch long, stout, and inserted in a small round cavity. 

 Flesh, yellowish, tender, buttery, melting, and juicy, sweet, and with a 

 brisk flavour, and a fine rose-water perfume. 



A good, but not a first-rate pear, which rots at the core in the end 

 of October. 



This is perfectly distinct from Urbaniste, with which a pear, cultivated on 

 the Continent under the name of Louise d 'Orleans, is synonymous. The variety 

 here deiscribed I received from M. Pupeleu, of Wetteren, in 1847. 



LOUISE DE PRUSSE. Fruit, large ; long obovate. Skin, of an 

 uniform straw-yellow, with a few traces of cinnamon-russet and russet 

 dots. Eye, open. Stalk, short, obliquely inserted by the side of a 

 fleshy lip. Flesh, tender, melting, juicy, and sweet. 



A second-rate pear, which rots at the core in October. 



Lucrate. See Fondante cVAutomne. 



LUCY GRIEVE. Fruit, large, three inches long, and two and a 

 half wide ; oval, rather uneven in outline, bossed round the waist and 

 about the eye ; its shape is a combination of Glou Morc,eau and 

 Swan's Egg, the appearance about the crown being particularly like the 

 former. Skin, lemon-yellow, with occasionally a brownish red blush on 

 the side next the sun ; and the whole surface is sprinkled with cinnamon- 

 coloured russet dots, which in some parts, and particularly round the 

 stalk, are so thick as to become patches of russet. Eye, rather open, 

 with long narrow segments, set in an uneven depression. Stalk, an inch 

 long, woody, set even with the surface. Flesh, white, very tender and 

 melting, very juicy and richly flavoured. 



