PEARS. 249 



oblique at the crown, about three inches long, and two inches 

 and a quarter broad. Eye small, open, with a short slencter 

 calyx, slightly sunk in a narrow, shallow, oblique depression. 

 Stalk an inch long, crooked, curved, obliquely inserted un- 

 der a small elongated lip. Skin pale yellow, mixed with 

 green ; on the sunny side of an orange-brown, and full of 

 small, gray, russetty specks, which are the more numerous 

 as they approach the crown. Flesh pale yellow, a little 

 gritty, but very tender and melting. Juice abundant, highly 

 saccharine, with'a slight musky perfume. 



Ripe the end of September, and will keep a few weeks 

 only. 



This is a very excellent dessert Pear, and is grown in the 

 Horticultural Garden at Chiswick upon an open standard. 



88. INCOMMUNICABLE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 340. 

 L'Incommunicable. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. App. ii. p. 6. 

 Fruit above the middle size, pyramidal, and compressed 



towards the stalk, about three inches and a half long, and 

 two inches and a half in diameter. Eye small, closed by a 

 very short slender calyx, and placed in a very slight narrow 

 depression. Stalk half an inch long, stout, bent, diagonally 

 inserted beneath a small elongated lip. Skin pale grass- 

 green, thickly sprinkled with small gray russetty specks. Flesh 

 yellowish white, tinged near the core with a light shade of 

 orange colour, a little gritty, but melting. Juice saccha- 

 rine, with a slight musky perfume. 



Ripe the middle to the end of October. 



It is difficult to conceive the origin of this singular name. 

 It has been attached to one of those newly raised Flemish 

 varieties which bear so well and so regularly in the Horti- 

 cultural Garden at Chiswick upon an open standard. 



89. REISER. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 360. 



Fruit middle-sized, turbinate, gradually tapering from the 

 middle to the stalk, about three inches deep, and two inches 

 and a half in diameter. Eye small, with short erect seg- 

 ments of the calyx, placed in a very narrow depression. 

 Stalk three quarters of an inch long, thick and woody. Skin 

 pale green, becoming yellowish green, thickly sprinkled 

 with small gray russetty specks, and russetty round the 

 stalk. Flesh greenish white, a little gritty, but melting. 

 Juice saccharine, without any peculiar flavour. 



Ripe the middle of October, and will keep some weeks. 



This is also another of those hardy Pears which bear so 

 plentifully upon an open standard, in the Horticultural Gar- 

 den at Chiswick, 



