130 WESTERN FRUIT BOOK. 



A handsome pear, of first-rate quality. Flesh, melting, 

 juicy. Eesembles Gray Doyenne. Yery productive. 



Beurre Charron. Color, greenish yellow ; form, round- 

 ish ; size, 2 ; use, table ; texture, juicy, melting; quality, 1. 

 Eemarks. — Foreign. 



Beurre Kenrick. Color, greenish yellow ; form, pyri- 

 form ; size, 2 ; use, table ; texture, not juicy. 

 Eemarks. — Unworthy. 



Beurre Nantais. Color, greenish j^ellow with crim- 

 son ; form, long pyriform, sometimes obovate ; size, 2 ; 

 use, table ; texture, melting, very juicy ; richly flavored, 

 sweet and pleasant ; quality, 1 ; season, August. 



Eemarks. — Should be picked before ripe. Summer and 

 early Fall pears should be picked when fully grown, and 

 before the process of ripening commences. Much fine 

 fruit is spoiled by being picked too late. With very few 

 exceptions, no pear ought to ripen on the tree. 



Beurre Knox. 

 Eemarks. — Unworthy. 



Beurre Preble. Color, greenish yellow, russet and 

 green spots ; form, oblong, obovate ; size, 1 ; use, table ; 

 texture, buttery ; quality, 2 ; season, September and Oc- 

 tober. 



Eemarks. — American origin. Worthy. 



Beurre Golmar. 

 Eemarks. — Unworthy. 



BEUEEE LANGLIEE. Color, light green, with pale 

 yellow ; form, obovate, pyriform ; size, 1 ; use, table ; 



