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excellent variety, and a very abundant bearer. The trees have 

 slender, drooping branches. 



Fruit rather small, turbinate, inclining to pyriform, and a lit- 

 tle compressed on its sides. Skin dense brown russet, thickly 

 sprinkled with round, gray specks. Stalk an inch long, slender, 

 and planted obliquely, without depression. Calyx very small, 

 set in a shallow basin. Flesh white, tender, juicy, with a 

 sugary, perfumed flavour. September. 



Class III. Winter Pears. 



185. ANGORA. 



This pear, recently introduced into the United States, pur- 

 ports to come from the town of Angora, near Constantinople, 

 and it is said to be one of the largest and most delicious 

 winter pears of the latter city. The fruit is said to weigh from 

 two to five pounds, to be yellow, with a red cheek, to have a 

 crisp flesh and sprightly flavour, and to keep till May. It will 

 no doubt bear the coming season, and it is doubtful, taking into 

 account the difference of climate in Turkey, whether it proves 

 much more than a good cooking pear here.* Spurious sorts 

 have been sold for the Angora such as the Pound Pear and 

 Catillac ; and we are inclined to believe that the latter sort is 

 what has been received in this country as the true Angora. 



186. BETTRRE D'AREMBERG. Thomp. Lind. 



Due d'Aremberg. D'Aremberg Parfait. 



Deschamps. L'Orpheline. 



Colmar Deschamps. Beurre des Orphelines. 



The Beurre" d'Aremberg is certainly one of the first of winter 

 dessert pears in our climate. It is a fine, large fruit, very 

 high flavoured, bears most abundantly, and always keeps and 

 matures, with perhaps less care than any other winter fruit in 

 the house. Its flavour is of the rich vinous kind sugar, ming- 

 led with acid and, when in perfection, is not unlike that of the 

 pine apple. This vinous flavour is not so agreeable to some 

 persons as the sugary, and such will prefer the Winter Nelis 

 and Glout Morceau to the present variety. 



The Beurre" d'Aremberg was raised, not long since, by the 

 Abbe Deschamps, in the garden of the Hospice des Orphelines, 



* We notice, since writing the above, that two sorts introduced into the Paris 

 gardens from Constantinople under this name have borne, and both are very in- 

 different, one being the Catillac. 



