PEARS. 



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lips. Skin grayish yellow, tinged with a deeper yellow on 

 the sunny side, and partially covered with a thin orange- 

 gray russet. Flesh breaking, a little gritty, with a very sac- 

 charine and plentiful juice. 



Ripe the end of September, and will keep two or three 

 weeks. 



73. CAPIAUMONT. Hort. Trans. Yol. v. p. 406. 

 Capiaumont. Pom. Mag. t. 59. 



Beurre de Capiaumont. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 91. 



Fruit middle-sized, turbinate, regularly tapering to the 

 stalk, about three inches and a quarter long, and two inches 

 and a half in diameter. Eye not at all sunk, but level with 

 the extremity. Stalk scarcely half an inch long, inserted 

 without any cavity. Skin a fine clear cinnamon, fading into 

 yellow in the shade, and acquiring a rich bright red in the 

 sun. Flesh yellowish, melting, buttery, very rich, and high- 

 ly flavoured. 



Ripe the middle of October, and will keep for two or three 

 weeks. 



This succeeds equally well upon the Pear and the Quince. 



It is one of the best of those varieties raised in Flanders 

 during the period when so large an accession was made to 

 the cultivated fruits of that country. It is recorded to have 

 owed its origin to a M. Capiaumont of Mons. The first 

 specimens which were seen in this country came to the 

 Horticultural Society in 1820, from M. Parmentier of En- 

 ghien. 



It bears well as a standard, but is best cultivated as an 

 open dwarf, grafted upon a Quince stock. 



74. CHAT-BRULE. Duhamel, No. 116. 



Fruit middle-sized, of a pyramidal turbinate figure, about 

 two inches and three quarters long, and two inches in di- 

 ameter. Eye small, placed in a shallow plaited hollow. 

 Stalk an inch long, obliquely inserted. Skin smooth, shin- 

 ing, of a pale yellow, but of a dark brown on the sunny side. 

 Flesh melting, but not very juicy, and if kept too long is apt 

 to grow me ally. 



75. DARIMONT. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 215. 



Fruit middle-sized, oblong, in some specimens slightly 

 pyramidal, tapering a little towards the stalk, about three 

 inches long, and two inches and a quarter in diameter. Eye 

 small, open, the segments of the calyx generally falling off 

 before the fruit is fully grown, placed in a very narrow shal- 

 low depression, and surrounded by a few slightly radiated 



