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faintly striped with green and red, and sprinkled all over with 

 small russetty brown dots. Flesh white, melting, sweet, 

 and very agreeable ; but it is not so high-flavoured as the 

 Gray Doyenne". 



In eating from October till Christmas. 

 79. DOYENNE SANTELETE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 241. 

 Fruit above the middle size, pyramidally oblong, not much 

 unlike a Chaumontelle in shape, but narrow at the crown, 

 and more compressed towards the stalk, about three inches 

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

 small, open, with a very shut strigose calyx, slightly sunk in 

 a narrow obtusely angular hollow. Stalk an inch long or 

 more, curved, very slightly inserted, sometimes a little ob- 

 liquely, in a narrow base. Skin pale green, thinly covered 

 with detached specks of gray russet, which are more nume- 

 rous round the stalk. Flesh white, a little gritty, but tender. 

 Juice saccharine, with a slight musky perfume. 



Ripe the beginning of October, and will keep till the end. 

 This is a very fine handsome Pear from Flanders, grown 

 in the Horticultural Society's garden at Chiswick, upon an 

 open standard. 



80. DUCHESS OF ANCOULME. Pom. Mag. t. 76. 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme. Hort. Trans. Vol. vii. p. 176. 

 t. 3. Bon. Jard. 1829, p. 328. 



Fruit large, roundish-oblong, tapering towards the stalk, 

 with an extremely uneven knobby surface, usually measur- 

 ing about three inches and a half each way, or four inches 

 deep, and three inches and a half in diameter, but sometimes 

 much larger. Eye deeply sunk in an irregular hollow. 

 Stalk an inch long, stout, deeply inserted in an irregular ca- 

 vity. Skin dull yellow, copiously and irregularly spotted 

 with broad russet patches. Flesh rich, melting, very juicy, 

 and high flavoured, with a most agreeable perfume. 

 Ripe in October and November. 



This succeeds extremely well on the Quince, as well as 

 the Pear. 



The Duchess of Angouleme, the very finest of the late 

 autumn Pears, is said to have been found wild in a hedge of 

 the Forest of Armaille, near Angers. It arrives at a weight 

 unusual in Pears that are fit for the dessert. Jersey speci- 

 mens have been seen, which measured four inches and three 

 quarters long, and four inches and a half in diameter, weigh- 

 ing twenty-two ounces. 



The trees bear very early and certainly, especially if 

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