682 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



Poire Douce. See Angelique de Bordeaux. 

 Poire des Mouches. See Orange Tulipee. 

 Poire de Prince. See Chair a Dames. 

 Poire de Provence. See Donville. 

 Poire a la Perle. See Small Blanquet. 

 Poire de Rives. See Cuisse Madame. 



POMME POIRE (Beurre de Rackenheim; Pomoise). Fruit, below 

 medium size ; round and Bergamot-shaped, even and regularly formed. 

 Skin, entirely covered with dark cinnamon-coloured russet, except on 

 the shaded side, where there is occasionally a bare patch exposing the 

 pea- green colour of the skin, and which is thickly covered with large 

 russety freckles. Eye, small and open, set in a deep and round basin. 

 Stalk, short, stout, and inserted in a rather deep and narrow cavity. 

 Flesh, yellow, tender, and melting, very juicy. Juice, rich, sugary, 

 and vinous, with a high perfume. 



A delicious pear; ripe in the end of October, and does not keep 



Pomoise. See Pomme Poire. 

 Portugal d'Ete. See Cassolette. 

 Pound Pear. See Black Worcester. 

 Pound Pear. See Catillac. 

 Pradel. See Vicar of Winkfield. 

 Precel. See Passe Colmar. 



PREMICES D'ECULLY (Belle d'Ecully). Fruit, above medium 

 size, three inches in diameter ; round or Bergamot-shaped, somewhat 

 bossed and uneven in its outline. Skin, yellow, with here and there 

 patches of a greenish tinge, and thickly dotted all over with brown 

 russet dots and small blotches of russet. Eye, small and open, with 

 erect segments, set in a deep round basin. Stalk, very short, stout, 

 and woody, inserted without depression. Flesh, tender, melting, and 

 very juicy, rather coarse-grained, sweet, with a thin, watery, juicy, and 

 pleasant flavour. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in the last week of September. It requires 

 to be gathered while green, and to be kept in the fruit room till it 

 begins to turn yellow. It is then of better flavour than when ripened 

 on the tree. 



Raised at Ecully, near Lyons, by M. Luizet, in 1847. 



PREMIER. Fruit, above medium size, three inches and a quarter 

 long, and two inches and a quarter wide ; oblong, terminating abruptly 

 and blunt at the stalk, undulating in its outline, and contracted with a 



