250 AUTUMN PEARS. 



flesh fine-grained, buttery, melting, rich, high-flavored. 

 Ripens about raid-autumn. Resembles Dundas in form, 

 without the deep wide basin and high red cheek of that 

 variety. Shoots upright, dark. Belgian. 



Huguenot. Medium size ; roundish, pale-yellow ; dots 

 large, red ; stalk rather slender, without cavity ; calyx 

 small, basin round ; flesh half-breaking, sweet, deficient 

 in flavor. Third-rate. Mid-autumn. Salem, Mass. 



Michaux. Medium size, nearly round; skin yellowish 

 green, with a faint blush ; stalk an inch and a half long, 

 cavity little or none; basin shallow; flesh juicy, half 

 buttery, sweet, second or third rate. Early mid-autumn. 

 French. 



Naumkeag. Medium in size, roundish, russeted, cavity 

 very shallow ; flesh juicy, melting, somewhat astringent, 

 second or third-rate. Mid-autumn. Salem, Mass. 



Rousselet de Meester. Medium size, roundish, often slight- 

 ly oblate, with an obscure, very short neck ; skin pale 

 greenish yellow; sometimes a faint blush ; stalk an inch 

 and a half long, cavity none ; calyx large, basin small, 

 irregular ; flesh melting, sugary, rich, with some rough- 

 ness of flavor a good second-rate pear. Mid-autumn. 

 Belgian. 



Sylvange. (Syn. Green Sylvange, Bergamotte Sylvange. J 

 Size medium, roundish-obovate, approaching turbinate ; 

 skin pale green, with numerous rough small dots; stalk 

 one inch long, slender ; basin shallow ; flesh greenish- 

 white, fine-grained, juicy, melting, tolerably good. Mid- 

 dle and late autumn. Shoots stout, dark olive. 



Sieulle. (Syn. Beurr Sieulle, Doyenne Sieulle. J Medium 

 in size, roundish-oblate, often roundish-obovate, with a 

 very short, obscure neck ; obtuse ; skin pale yellow, with 

 a slight blush, and sometimes a brilliant broad orange 

 cheek ; stalk thick, an inch and a quarter long, cavity 

 shallow, rarely deep ; calyx slightly sunk ; flesh buttery, 

 fine-grained, rich, of good second-rate or nearly first-rate 

 quality. Middle and late autumn. 



