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Beurr^ Defay : First size, melting, very juicy, sugary, vinous and 

 delicate. 



Cadet de Vaux : First size meltiuir, juice excessive, rich and savory. 

 Continues from December to March and sometimes to May. 



Comte de Flandres : First size extremely juicy, rich, aromatic, and 

 exquisite. 



Doyenne d' AlenOon : Second size, very melting, very juicy, sugary, 

 and aromatic. 



Duchesse de Bordeaux : First size, melting, very juicy, refreshing 

 and delicate. 



Figue d' AlenCon : First to second size, juicy, buttery, and highly 

 flavored. This delicious Pear requires a warm soil to bring it to per- 

 fection. 



Graslin : First to second size, very meltmg, juice excessive, sugary, 

 delicate, and perfumed. M. Decaisue says that this and B. Supertin are 

 the same : but they are entirely different. One ripe in October, the 

 other in December. 



Josephine de Malines : Second to third size, flesh very flne and 

 melting, juice excessive, acidulated, and perfumed. A valuable Pear. 



Mariette de Millepieds : First size, flesh very tine and melting, juice 

 excessive, sugary, acidulated and exquisitely flavored, in eating from 

 December to April. A valuable Winter Pear. 



Passe Colmar : First to second size, flesh melting and odorif(3rous, juice 

 excessive, very sugary, vinous and perfumed. 



Supreme Coloma ; First size, flesh fine and melting, juice excessive, 

 sugary and delicate. Ripe in November and also delicious in December. 



These comprise but a fraction of Mr. Scott's extended list ; but they 

 are are all regarded by him as his " best December Pears." He says 

 that " He always deemed the late Autumn and Winter Pears to be the 

 " most delicious ; they are richer and more aromatic than the early kinds, 

 " which have often nothing to recommend them but their juiciness and 

 " sweetness, although there are a good many exceptions." 



Mr. Scott was the first to expose and denounce the attempted fraud of 

 the Brockworth Park. And, although it is doubtful if the tendency 

 among ourselves to limit the list of Pears, whose culture is desirable, can 

 or should be checked, there can be no dispute about the value of an 

 expeiience based upon the test of a thousand varieties. It is quite likely 

 that none of us may care to try any of the kinds just described, in a 

 " fight sandy loam," or upon a hard clay subsoil ; but it is absolutely 

 certain that the sum of our knowledge is just so much augmented by the 

 volume and thorough precision of his practical observations. With each 



