BEURRE' D'ANJOU PEAR. 



Wood. — Yellowish olive, dotted with pale gi^ay specks, stout, and 

 short-jointed ; old wood, grayish olive ; buds large, short, ovate, diverging, 

 with rather prominent shoulders : Flower-buds large, bluntly obovate. 



Leaves. — Large, oblong, rounded at the base, and tapering regularly 

 to the point, recurved on the midrib, smooth, pale green, undulated, 

 folded inwards, and nearly entire on the edge; petioles rather long, 

 nearly two inches in length, stout. 



Flowers. — Medium size ; petals with a long claw and much cupped. 



Fruit. — Large, about three and a half inches long, and three in 

 diameter : Form, oblong-obovate, full and rounded at the crown, nar- 

 rowing to an obtuse point at the stem : Skin, fair, smooth, yellowish, 

 very broadly marked on the sunny side with dull red, much russetted 

 around the eye, and regularly covered with minute russety specks : 

 Stem, short, about half an inch long, always stout and thick, curved, 

 and obhquely inserted in a shallow cavity, formed by uneven swellings 

 and projections of the fruit : Eye, medium size, open, and depressed in 

 a small, round, regularly formed basin ; segments of the calyx con- 

 nected, thick, reflexed : Flesh, yellowish white, rather coai'se, melting, 

 and very juicy : Flavor, rich, sprightly, vinous, highly perfumed, and 

 dehcious : Core, small : Seeds, large, long, and pointed. 



Ripe in October and November, and keeps well. 



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