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Tree medium in size and vigor, spreading, moderately productive; trunk slender, 

 shaggy; branches medium in thickness and smoothness, reddish-brown partly overspread 

 with thin gray scarf-skin, with few indistinct lenticels; branchlets short, with short inter- 

 nodes, light brownish-red mingled with green and partly covered with thin, gray scarf- 

 skin, dull, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaf -buds long, narrow, sharply pointed, plump, free. Leaves 3 in. long, i\ in. wide; 

 apex taper-pointed; margin tipped with small, brownish glands, coarsely serrate; petiole 

 2 in. long, glabrous, reddish-green. Flower-buds long, conical, sharply pointed, free, 

 singly on numerous short spurs; flowers showy, if in. across, in dense clusters, average 

 7 buds in a cluster, the petals widsly separated at the base; pedicels tV in. long, slender, 

 lightly pubescent. 



Fruit matures in late September and October; medium in size, 2| in. long, 2j in. wide, 

 obovate-acute-pyriform, symmetrical ; stem 1 in. long, thick; cavity lacking, the flesh 

 drawn up in a symmetrical fold about the stem; calyx small, open; lobes separated at the 

 base, narrow, acute; basin very shallow, narrow, obtuse, smooth or slightly wrinkled; 

 skin thin, tender, smooth; color yellow overlaid with a red blush, faintly mottled with 

 golden russet; dots numerous, whitish or russet, conspicuous; flesh tinged with yellow, 

 firm, granular, crisp, juicy, subacid; quality good. Core small, closed, axile, with meeting 

 core-lines; calyx-tube short, conical; seeds long, plump, acute. 



DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU 



1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:114, fig- 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 2nd App. 146, fig. 1876. 

 3. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 118. 1881. 



Duhamel' s Butterbirne. 4. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 207. 1889. 

 Duhamel. 5. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:241. 1903. 



The unattractive little fruits of this pear would have small value were 

 it not for the fact that they are delicious in quality and come into edible 

 condition late. The fruits are of the type of those of Winter Nelis, differing 

 in shape somewhat, but are even better in quality and keep longer. The 

 fruits are further distinguished by a musky taste and perfume, which make 

 them especially agreeable to those who like rich, sweet, perfumed pears. 

 The trees, while in no characters remarkable, are better than most of their 

 orchard associates, and far superior to the unmanageable trees of Winter 

 Nelis with which this variety must compete. After a probationary period 

 of a half century in America, Duhamel du Monceau has not found favor 

 with commercial orchardists, but pear fanciers value it for its delectable 

 late-keeping fruits. Nurserymen find the trees rather difficult to grow. 



Duhamel du Monceau was obtained from seed by Andre Leroy, the 

 eminent author and pomologist at Angers, France. In naming the variety, 

 M. Leroy said that his purpose was to do honor to the memory of the illus- 

 trious professor who filled an important place in pomology, and who, in 



