150 NEW AMERICAN ORCHAKDIST, 



dian name of Salem. The fruit is nearly round, or 

 roundish oblong; the stalk long; of a yellowish russet 

 color. A valuable pear, and a great bearer. Autumn. 

 X 117. *PARADISE D'AUTOMNE. 



New and fine ; indirectly received from France ; name 

 dubious. Large, very oblong, contracted towards the 

 middle, rounded at the crown, calabash-formed ; covered 

 with fine golden russet ; melting, of a sweet, delicious, 

 and aromatic flavor. The tree grows strong and upright, 

 afterwards pendulous, producing great crops, and is thus 

 nearly allied to the Bosc. It ripens midway between the 

 Wiliiams's Bon Chretien and Louise Bonne de Jersey. 



118. PARMENTIER. Thompson. 



Middle-sized, obovate ; striped with bright red ; beurree 

 and excellent. October. [September 7] 

 120. POIRE DE DUVERNY. [J.l 



Large and excellent; a new and half melting fruit; 

 ripening at Paris in October. 



\ 121. POIRE D' AN AN AS. London. 



A fruit of medium size, very handsome, melting, with a 

 fine pine-apple flavor, (hence its name,) ripening in No- 

 vember, and considered in Belgium as one of the very 

 best kinds. 

 V 122. POIRE DE MONS. [J.J 



A new fruit, of excellent quality, of medium size, and 

 ripening at Paris in November. 



123. POIRE DE LOUVAINE. Lindky. 



The fruit is middle-sized, pyramidal, uneven on its sur- 

 face ; of a dull green color, mixed with yellow and spots 

 of russet ; the flesh very tender, slightly gritty, and full of 

 a rich, very saccharine, musky juice. A very excellent 

 pear, and hardy tree; it highly deserves cultivation. Ripe 

 the beginning of October, and fine to the end. 



124. POIRE NEILL. Lindky. 



This fruit is sometimes nearly four inches long, and 

 three and a half inches in diameter ; pyramidally turbinate, 

 tapering to the stalk ; sometimes obliquely formed ; the 

 stalk is short and obliquely inserted; the skin pale yellow, 

 intermixed with green, and mottled with thin gray russet ; 

 flesh white, a little gritty, but very soft and mellow, abound- 

 ing with a saccharine and slightly musky juice. A very 

 fine and handsome new pear from Flandeas, so named in 



