AUTUMN PEARS. 



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Fig. 167. Flemuh Beauty. 

 118. FONDANTE VAN MONS. Thomp. 



An excellent melting pear, raised by Dr. Van Mons, and first 

 introduced by Mr. Manning. It bears abundantly. 



Fruit nearly of medium size, roundish, a little depressed. 

 Skin pale yellow. Stalk stout, an inch and a half long, planted 

 in a rather deep cavity. Calyx set in a pretty deep basin. 

 Flesh white, juicy, melting, sweet, and of very agreeable fla- 

 vour. First of November. 



119. FONDANTE D'AUTOMNE. Thomp. 



Belle Lucrative.* Lind. Man. and of most American gardens. 

 If we were asked which are the two highest flavoured pears 



* This is the pear described by Lindley as Belle Lucrative. By some error, Mr. 

 Thompson, in the last edition of the Catalogue of the London Horticultural 

 Society, has made the two sorts distinct. They are identically the same. 



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