PEARS. 617 



A dessert pear ; ripe in November and December. The tree bears 

 well as a standard, is vigorous and healthy when grown in a light, dry 

 soil ; succeeds well either on the pear or the quince. 



Messire Jean Blanc. See Messire Jean. 



Messire Jean Dore. See'^Messire Jean. 



Miel de Waterloo. See Fondante de Charneu. 



Milan Blanc. See Summer Franc Heal. 



Milan. See Bergamotte Cadette. 



Milan de la Beuvriere. See Summer Franc Real. 



Milan de Bordeaux. See Beryamotte Cadette. 



Milanaise Cuvelier. See Winter Nelis. 



MILAN DE ROUEN. Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter high, 

 and the same in width; Bergamot- shaped, even and regular in its 

 outline. Skin, very much covered with cinnamon-coloured russet, 

 except here and there, where a few patches of the greenish yellow 

 ground colour shines through ; on the side which has been exposed to 

 the sun there are broken streaks of rather dark bright crimson. Eye, 

 open, with short rudimentary segments, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, 

 short, inserted a little on one side of the axis in a narrow cavity. 

 Flesh, yellowish, coarse-grained, half-melting, pleasantly flavoured, 

 and with a musky perfume. 



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



It was raised by M. Boisbunel, of Rouen, and was first distributed in 1859. 



MILLOT DE NANCY. Fruit, about medium size ; obovato-tur- 

 binate, even and regularly shaped. Skin, smooth, of an uniform 

 coppery-red colour, dotted with rather large grey russet dots. On the 

 shaded side the colour is more yellowish, dotted and crusted with 

 cinnamon-coloured russet. Eye, small and open, set almost even with 

 the surface. Stalk, short, thick, and fleshy at the base, obliquely 

 inserted without depression. Flesh, yellowish, half-melting, very juicy, 

 and tender. Juice, thick, sweet, brisk, and highly flavoured, with a 

 pleasant aroma. 



A first-rate pear ; ripe in the end of October and beginning of 

 November. Grown on the Hastings Sand formation in the Weald of 

 Sussex, Mr. Luckhurst says it is a valuable pear. 



Raised by Dr. Van Mons at Louvain. It first fruited in 1843, and was named 

 by the son of Van Mons in honour of M. Millot, formerly a cavalry officer, and a 

 distinguished pomologist at Nancy. 



MOCCAS. Fruit, medium sized ; oval, uneven, and bossed in 

 outline. Skin, lemon-coloured, marked with patches and veins of thin 

 pale brown russet, and strewed with russet dots. Eye, somewhat 



