PEARS. 627 



changing as it ripens to lively red. Eye, open, with short, dry, erect 

 segments, and set in a shallow depression. Stalk, an inch long, 

 inserted in a small round cavity. Flesh, white, crisp, juicy, with a 

 fine sugary and perfumed flavour. 



An excellent early dessert pear; ripe in the end of August and 

 beginning of September. The tree is a great bearer, healthy and 

 vigorous, and succeeds well as a standard. 



PASSE COLMAR (Beurre d" Argenson ; Cellite ; Chapman's; Chap- 

 man s Passe Colmar ; Colmar Bonnet ; Colmar Dore; Colmar Epineux ; 

 Colmar Gris; Colmar Hardenpont ; Colmar Preul ; Colmar Souve- 

 raine ; Fondante de Panisd ; Fondante de Mons ; Gambler ; Marotte 

 Sucree; Passe Colmar Dore ; Passe Colmar Epineux; Passe Colmar 

 Gris; Precel; Present de Malines ; Pruel; Pucelle Condesienne ; 

 Regentine ; Roi de Baviere ; Souueraine; Souveraine d'Hiver). Fruit, 

 medium sized ; obovate or obtuse pyriform. Skin, smooth, lively green 

 at first, but changing to a fine uniform deep lemon-yellow, with a tinge 

 of brownish red next the sun, and strewed with numerous brown dots 

 and a few reticulations of russet. Eye, open, with dry, erect, rigid 

 segments, and set in a wide shallow basin. Stalk, varying from three- 

 quarters to an inch and a half long, set in a small sheath-like cavity, 

 Flesh, yellowish white, fine-grained, very juicy, buttery, and melting, 

 and of a rich, sweet, vinous and aromatic flavour. 



A dessert pear of the best quality ; ripe during November and 

 December. 



The tree is very vigorous, healthy, and hardy, and an excellent 

 bearer as a standard. It forms a handsome pyramid, and requires to- 

 be grown in a rich, warm soil, otherwise the flesh is crisp and gritty .. 

 In exposed situations it requires a wall. Mr. Blackmore says it is. 

 melting but insipid at Teddington. 



This is of Belgian origin, and supposed to have been raised by M. Hardenpont, 

 of Mons, in Hainault, in 1758, and has for many years been cultivated in Belgium 

 under the various names given as synonymes. It was first received in this country 

 by K. Wilbraham, Esq., of Twickenham, and by him given to a pen-on named 

 Chapman, a market gardener at Brentford End, Isleworth, who cultivated it 

 extensively, and attached his own name to it. The fruit was sold for 5s. each, 

 and the trees at 21s. each. 



Passe Colmar Dore. See Passe Colmar. 

 Passe Colmar Epineux. See Passe Colmar. 

 Passe Colmar Gris. See Passe Colmar. 



PASSE COLMAR MUSQUE. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and 

 three-quarters long, and two inches and a half wide ; obovate, even and 

 regular in its outline. Skin, yellow, much covered with mottles and 

 patches of pale cinnamon russet, with a patch round the stalk. Eye, 

 open, with very short segments, set in a wide and shallow basin. 

 Stalk, from half an inch to three-quarters long, obliquely inserted in a 

 small cavity. Flesh, yellow, melting, juicy, sweet, and very richly 

 flavoured, with a fine perfume. 



