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posed to the sun. Flesh white, tender, and full of a very 

 rich perfumed juice. 



It ripens upon the tree the end of September, and will not 

 keep above two or three weeks. 



This succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



62. ALEXANDRE DE RUSSIE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 5. 



Fruit above the middle size, somewhat obliquely pyra- 

 midal, with a very uneven knobby surface, about three inches 

 and a half long, and two inches and three quarters in diame- 

 ter. Eye open, with short narrow segments of the calyx, 

 placed in a shallow, narrow plaited hollow. Stalk half an 

 inch long, thick, almost horizontally inserted under an elon- 

 gated knobby lip. Skin greenish yellow, but almost wholly 

 covered with a cinnamon-gray russet. Flesh almost white, 

 gritty, but tender and mellow. Juice saccharine, with a 

 slight musky perfume. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of October, but will not 

 keep more than two or three weeks. 



This is a very fine Bonchretien-shaped variety, which has 

 been lately raised in Flanders, and sent to the Horticultural 

 Society, in whose garden it, in 1830, produced some un- 

 commonly fine fruit upon an open standard, from which this 

 description is taken. 



63. AUTUMN COLMAR. Hort. Gard. Coll. 



Fruit middle-sized, oblong, in shape that of a Colmar, 

 but irregular in its outline, about three inches long, and two 

 inches and a half in diameter. Eye small, with a short con- 

 verging calyx, slightly sunk in an uneven depression. Stalk 

 an inch long, straight, inserted in a small uneven cavity. 

 Skin pale yellow, sprinkled with russetty specks, which be- 

 come broader on the sunny side, and spread into a thin rus- 

 set. Flesh rather gritty, but mellow, with a sugary and slight- 

 ly perfumed juice. 



Ripe the beginning of October, but will not keep more 

 than two or three weeks in perfection. 



This is another of the new Flemish Pears, grown in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick, and bears ex- 

 tremely well upon an open standard. 



64. BELLE LUCRATIVE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 41. 

 Fondante d'Automne. 76. No. 269. 



Fruit middle-sized, round in its outline, tapering to the 

 stalk, and a little uneven in its surface, about three inches 

 deep, and two inches and three quarters in diameter. Eye 

 open, with a very short calyx, in- a shallow, rather obliquely 



