MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



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LOUISE BONNE DE JERSEY. 



Lonise Bonne d'Avranches, 



Beurre OP Bonne Louise d'Araudore. 



William the Fourth. 



The " Good Louise of Jer- 

 sey," from the Isle of Jersey, 

 proves one of the best pears 

 grown on the quince stock in 

 this country. Tree, hardy, 

 very productive, snoois vigor- 

 ous, upright. 



Fruit, large, (our drawings 

 were made ere the fruit had 

 swollen its full size, and are 

 not more than half size,) ob- 

 long pyriform j skin, glossy, 

 smooth, green in shade, brown- 

 ish red in sun, dotted with 

 gray dots ; stem, about one 

 inch long, moderately stout, a 

 little curved, fleshy enlarge- 

 ment at base; calyx, open, 

 segments large, reflexed ; ba- 

 sin, shallow ; core, small ; 

 seeds, long, ovate pointed ' } 

 flesh, white, juicy, melting, 

 delicious. October. 



PARADISE D'AUTOMNE. 



Calebasse Bosc. 



Foreign. This is esteemed by many pomologists as superior even to the 

 Beurre Bosc, which it much resembles. Tree, of very vigorous growth, 

 shoots at first upright, afterwards straggling and pendulous ; wood, reddish 

 brown, with large whitish gray specks, very productive. Fruit, large, 

 obovate acute pyriform, irregular and uneven surface , color, dull yellow, 

 covered with bright russet, deepening on the sunny side ; calyx, rather 

 large, open ; segments, reflexed ; basin, furrowed ; stem, about one and a 

 half inch long, rather slender, obliquely attached to the fruit by a fleshy, 

 and often times wrinkled base ; core, small ; seeds, long, pointed ; fesh, 

 yellowish white, rather coarse, buttery, melting, juicy, delicious. Sep. 

 tember and October. 



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