870 THE PEAR. 



79. BON CHRETIEN FONDANTE. Thomp. Lind. 



A recent Flemish pear, abounding with juice, and having a 

 refreshing agreeable flavour. In good seasons, it is first of the 

 quality, and it bears early and abundantly. Young shoots 

 slender, diverging, olive gray. 



Fruit pretty large, roundish-oblong, regularly formed. Skin 

 pale green, sprinkled with small russet dots, and considerably 

 covered with russet. Stalk three-fourths of an inch long, 

 curved, inserted in a slight depression. Calyx small, set in a 

 narrow hollow. Flesh yellowish-white, gritty round the core, 

 exceedingly juicy, tender and melting, with a rich and pleasant 

 flavour. 



80. BURNETT. Ken. 



A pleasant, sweet pear, of large size, raised by Dr. Joel 

 Burnett, of Southborough, Mass. 



Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform. Skin smooth, pale yellow, with 

 numerous greenish-gray dots, and sometimes a little russet. 

 Stalk an inch and a half long, planted in a swollen base, or 

 with a blunt depression. Calyx open, stiff, placed in a shallow 

 basin. Flesh greenish-white, a little coarse grained, but juicy, 

 sweet and good. First of October. 



81. CABOT. Man. 



Originated from the seed of the Brown Beurre, by J. S. Cabot, 

 Esq., of Salem, Mass. It has a good deal of the flavour of its 

 parent, and is an agreeable, sub-acid fruit. The tree grows 

 upright and very strong, and produces amazing crops, but the 

 fruit, with us, decays very quickly though, we understand 

 that, in older specimens, this is not the case. It merits a gene- 

 ral trial. Col. M. P. Wilder, of Boston, informs us, that with 

 him, it is of the first quality, nearly as good as Fondante 

 d'Automne. 



Fruit pretty large, roundish-turbinate, narrowing rather ab- 

 ruptly to the stalk, which is bent obliquely, and inserted on 

 one side, of a tapering summit. Skin roughish, bronze yellow, 

 pretty well covered with cinnamon russet. Calyx small, open, 

 set in a round, smooth basin. Flesh greenish-white, breaking, 

 juicy, with a rich, sub-acid flavour. Middle and last of Sep- 

 tember. 



82. CHELMSFORD. 

 A native pear, from the neighbourhood of Boston, of large 



