64 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



await the opportunity of .procuring better ones : the past year, 

 we received a fine fruit from the collection of the Messrs. 

 Putnam of Salem, from which our engraving is made. Mr. 

 Manning, in answer to our inquiries, in relation to the intro- 

 duction of this pear, and its qualities, writes as follows : — " The 

 Elizabeth was received from Van Mons, as No 158, but I can- 

 not ascertain exactly when. A pear, received in 1834, with this 

 number, proved to be the Marie Louise, and I am inclined to 

 think that the variety which now bears the name was not re- 

 ceived earlier than 1838. I know of no more productive vari- 

 ety. When the fruit has attained about half its size, the 

 blossom end — about half the pear — is, in a majority of speci- 

 mens, covered with a thick russet, suddenly terminating in a 

 distinct line around the pear, some traces of which are often 

 visible when the fruit is mature. Young shoots reddish 

 brown." 



Size, small, about two inches long and two in diameter : 

 Fo?'m, obovate, very full around the eye, tapering to, and end- 

 ing obtusely at, the stem : Skin, fair, lemon yellow, very bril- 

 liantly suffused with red on the sunny side, through which 

 appear deeper-colored specks, becoming paler in the shade, 

 often with traces of russet : Ste7nj medium length, about three 

 quarters of an inch, rather slender, smooth, olive browii, and 

 slightly inserted in a shallow cavity : Eye, small, open, little 

 sunk in an open, shallow basin ; segments of the calyx short : 

 Flesh, yellowish, coarse, melting and juicy : Flavor, saccha- 

 rine, rich and pleasantly perfumed : Co7^e, large : Seeds, rather 

 large, brown. Ripe the latter part of August. 



64. COTER. 



The Coter pear, {fig: 7,) was one of the varieties received 

 from Van Mons in 1834, and is enumerated in the list which 

 was published at that time as the " Coter peer." The younger 

 Mr. Manning has enumerated it among the fine new kinds 

 which have recently fruited in his collection, and has briefly 

 described it in our last volume, (XII. p. 149.) The past au- 

 tumn, he kindly forwarded us several specimens of this and 

 other pears, from which our drav/ing was made, and he has 

 recently given us the following additional information respecting 



