AUTUMN PEARS. 



417 



Fruit rather large, obovate, sometimes roundish-obovate. 

 Skin smooth, pale lemon yellow, with a very few minute dots, 

 and rarely a little faint red on the sunny side. Stalk rather 

 more than an inch long, not deeply planted in a cavity rather 

 higher on one side. Calyx rather small, and pretty firm, set in 

 a slight, smooth basin. Flesh white, exceedingly fine grained 

 and buttery, abounding with delicious, high flavoured, aromatic 

 juice, different from that of the Doyenne. October. 



176. URBANISTE. Thomp. Lind. 



The Urbaniste is a fruit for which we confidently predict the 

 highest popularity in this country. In its delicious flavour it 

 compares, perhaps, more nearly with the favourite old Doyenne" 

 or Virgalieu, than any other fruit, and adds, when in perfection, 

 a delicate perfume, peculiarly its own. Its handsome size and 

 appearance, and remarkably healthy habit, commend it for those 

 districts where, from neglect or bad soil, the Doyenne does not 

 flourish. The tree is a moderately vigorous grower, and though 



Fig. 190. Urbanise 



