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yellow and brown color ; beurree and excellent. January. 

 It is thought by Mr. Rivers, and some others, to be one 

 of the hardiest and most productive pears known. In 1840, 

 a tree of this kind was witnessed at the garden of the Lon- 

 don Horticultural Society, which bore prodigious crops. 



193. *WINTER NELIS. Pom. Mag. 



LA BONNE MALINOISE. Mr. Knight. Pom. Mag. Hort. Trans. 



NELIS D'HIVER. BONNE DE MALINES. Hort. Trans. 



MILANESE CUVILIER, according to Thompson. 

 A new variety, raised by M. Nelis, of Malines. Sent by 

 Mr. Knight, in 1823, to the Hon. John Lowell. Repre- 

 sented as a most excellent winter pear. Rather above the 

 middle size ; obovate ; obtuse at the stalk, which is thick, 

 and over an inch long ; the skin yellowish, sometimes 

 covered with russet brown ; the flesh yellowish, melting, 

 buttery, juicy, very rich, and high-flavored. Equal to the 

 Chaumontelle. A fine, productive winter fruit. 



CLASS III. 



The following new and celebrated varieties of pears are 

 mostly in our country, and of very recent and foreign ori- 

 gin; a small part only are American. The excellency 

 and productiveness of a considerable proportion of them 

 are undoubted, and some few are already well known ; all 

 are eminently deserving of trial. 



ABBREVIATIONS. 



.4. H. is Annales d 1 Horticulture. H. T. is London Horticultural 

 Transactions. Loud, is Mr. London. Lind. is Lindley. Par. is 

 Chevalier Parmentier. Poit. is Mons. Poiteau, in Le Bon Jar- 

 dinier. F. M. is Van Mons. D. is Mons. Dalbret, and J. is Mons. 

 Jamin; and the star which is prefixed to these initials denotes that 

 the fruits thus described by them are excellent. The numeral 

 figures annexed denote the proportion in which those fruits are 

 recommended for cultivation by them ; and this is in proportion to 

 their excellency and productiveness, and also to the season of their 

 maturity ; a greater proportion being recommended in the winter 

 varieties, on account of their long keeping, and the proportion of 

 them being fewer in number. 



