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stance, some cultivators have discarded it from their collec- 

 tions. Like all free bearing pears, it should have a rich and 

 generous soil. The trees are very vigorous growers, and fre- 



Fiff. 39. Passe Colmar Pear. 



quently flower and produce a second crop. On the quince 

 it succeeds admirably, uniting well with that stock, and 

 forming a handsome pyramidal tree. Wood, clear, yellow- 

 ish brown ; leaves, ovate, erect. 



Size, large, about three and a half inches long and three 

 in diameter : Form, obtuse, pyramidal, full at the crown, 

 contracted in the middle, and obtuse at the stem : Skin, fair, 

 yellowish green, becoming pale yellow when mature, some- 

 what traced with russet around the eye, broadly tinged with 

 red on the sunny side, and dotted with scattered green and 

 russet specks : Stem, medium length, about one inch long, 



