AUTUMN PEARS. 



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is very short, and inserted without depression. Skin rather 

 rough, yellow, a little mottled with patches of greenish russet, 

 and marked with a fine red cheek. Calyx small, somewhat 

 projecting, basin very slight. Flesh yellowish, buttery, melt- 

 ing and good, when the season is favourable. October. 



139. LOUISE BONNE OF JERSEY. Thomp. 



Louise Bonne de Jersey. 

 Louise Bonne d'Avranches. 

 Beurre, or Bonne Louise d'Araudore\ 

 William the Fourth. 



Louise Bonne, 

 of Jersey, is one 

 of the best new 

 autumn pears, fair 

 and glossy, exceed- 

 ingly juicy, and 

 well flavoured. It 

 is claimed by Eng- 

 lish cultivators for 

 the Isle of Jersey, 

 and by the French 

 for the neighbour- 

 hood of Avranches, 

 and there is no 

 doubt it originated 

 in the latter place. 

 The first fruit seen 

 in England, was 

 sent to the London 

 Horticultural So- 

 ciety's exhibition, 

 from the gardens of 

 Gen. Gordon, of 

 Jersey, in 1820. 

 In this country it 

 succeeds admira- 

 bly, and will be- 

 come a very popu. 

 lar fruit, being har- 

 dy and productive, 

 the tree making 

 fine upright shoots. 

 Fruit large, py- 

 Jfig. 174. Louise Bonne of Jersey. riform, a little one- 



sided. Skin smooth and glossy, pale green in the shade, but 

 overspread with brownish red in the sun, and dotted with nume- 

 rous gray dots. Stalk about an inch long, curved, rather 



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