PEARS. 637 



RIVERS. Fruit, medium sized ; turbinate, regular in its outline. 

 Skin, greenish, almost entirely covered with bright brown russet. 

 Eye, open, slightly depressed in a plaited basin. Stalk, very short 

 slender, and inserted quite on the apex of the fruit. Flesh, very 

 melting, juicy, with a rich vinous flavour and a delicate musky perfume. 



An excellent early pear ; ripe in September. 



It was raised by M. Andre Leroy, of Angers, and was named as a compliment 

 to Mr. Thomas Rivers, of Sawbridge worth. 



ROBERT HOGG. Fruit, large, three inches and a half long, and 

 nearly three inches wide ; short obovate, widest towards the crown. 

 Skin, rather deep green, much covered with fawn-coloured mottles of 

 russet and small grey dots. Eye, open, pretty much depressed. 

 Stalk, very short, somewhat obliquely inserted in a slight depression 

 by the side of a fleshy swelling. Flesh, fine-grained, very melting and 

 juicy, richly flavoured, aromatic, and with an agreeable acidity. 



A dessert pear of the finest quality ; in use in September and 

 October. The tree is an excellent bearer. 



This was raised by M. Andre Leroy, of Angers, and produced its first fruit in 

 1868, when M. Leroy did me the honour to associate my name with it, and which 

 I regard as a graceful acknowledgment of a friendship which existed for nearly 

 forty years. 



Roberts's Keeping. See Easter Bergamot. 



ROBINE (Hoy ale d'Ete). Fruit, below medium size ; roundish tur- 

 binate, like a small Bergamot. Skin, at first bright green, but becoming 

 paler and of a yellowish tinge as it ripens, and dotted with brown dots. 

 Eye, open, with long reflexed acuminate segments, and set in a small 

 rather shallow cavity. Stalk, an inch and a quarter long, inserted in a 

 very small sheath-like cavity. Flesh, white, crisp, rather dry, sugary, 

 and of a musky flavour. 



A dessert pear ; ripe in August. The tree is vigorous and much 

 resembles the Cassolette, and bears more freely on the quince than on 

 the pear stock. 



This I believe to be the Robine of Knoop, as well as of Duhamel ; but Knoop 

 gives Muscat d'Averat, Muscat d'Aout, and Aurate as synonymes, which is an 

 error. Hitt has also made the same mistake, although his description is that of 

 the Robine. The Robine of Gibson, which he says is the same as that of Tourne- 

 fort, is a very different pear from this, being larger and pyramidal, and from its 

 ripening in October is in all probability the Robin of the Jardinier Frangais. 



Rocheford. See Tonneau. 



Roi de Baviere. See Passe Colmar. 



Roi Jolimont. See Doyenne cTEte. 



Roi Louis. See Large Blanquet. 



Roi de Wurtemberg. See Glo:i Morgeau. 



