AUTUMN PEARS. 



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42. ANGLETERRE. Thomp. 



English Beurre. Lind. 

 Beurre d'Angleterre. Nois. 



A most productive pear, which has some affinity to Brown 

 Beurre, but is in/eriour to it in flavour. It is a good orchard 

 fruit, but is not worthy of a place in a small garden. The tree 

 forms a very erect, pyramidal head. Young wood olive. It is 

 one of the most common fruits in the market of Paris. 



Fruit of medium size, pyriform, very evenly shaped, tapering 

 very regularly to its union with the stalk, which is slender, and 

 rather more than an inch long. Skin rather thick amd hard, 

 dull light green, thickly speckled with russet dots, and having 

 a thin brownish russet cheek. Calyx set in a very smooth, 

 scarcely sunk basin. Flesh white, buttery and melting, full of 

 juice, and of pleasant, though not hia;h flavour. Middle of 

 September. 



43. ASTON TOWN. P. Mag. Thomp. Lind. 



A very hardy little 

 pear, from the village of 

 Aston, in Chester, Eng- 

 land. It is of excellent 

 flavour, nearly first rate, 

 and the tree, when in 

 bearing, is character- 

 ized by its long slender 

 branches, which have a 

 half-twisted, dangling 

 appearance. It bears 

 great crops, and is espe- 

 cially worthy of notice 

 in an unfavourable soil, 

 and cold climate. 



Fruit rather small, 

 form roundish-turbinate. 

 Skin a little rough, pale 

 brownish-green, becom- 

 ing yellowish when ripe, 

 and thickly dotted with 

 brown specks. Stalk 

 an inch and a half long, 

 rather straight and slen- 

 der, inserted with little 

 or no cavity. Calyx 

 nearly closed, in a very 



Fig. 146. A*bm Toum. 



