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Doyenne Santellette. Color, dull yellow, gray russet dots; 

 form, roundish, pyriform ; size, 1 ; texture, white, melt- 

 ing, vinous, juicy ; quality, 1 ; season, September. 



Remarks. — Foreign. An old variety. Little known. 

 Tree vigorous. 



DOYENNE GOUBALT. Color, dull, pale yellow; 

 form, obovate, acute pyriform ; size, 2 to 1 ; use, table ; 

 texture, good ; quality, 2. 



Eemarks. — Foreign ; great for orcharding on jDear roots. 



Doyenne de Fais. Color, yellow; form, roundish; 

 size, 1 ; use, table ; texture, juicy, rich ; quality, 2 ; sea- 

 son, September and October. 



Eemarks. — Tree, robust, and productive. . Described by 

 Thorpe, Smith & Co., Syracuse, N. Y. 



Duchess d'Angouleme. Color, dull green and yellow ; 

 form, oblate, ovate pyriform ; size, 1 (often monstrous) ; 

 use, table ; texture, buttery, juicy ; quality, 1 ; season, 

 September and October. 



Eemarks. — Magnificent. Sold for eight dollars per 

 bushel by Professor Mapes and others, in New Y^ork City. 

 Sometimes sold for seventy-five cents each in Philadel- 

 phia. Blooms too soon. Does not set so well with us — 

 often very badly. Dr. Warder complains that he knows 

 that six pears only set on fifty trees, three years planted, 

 after having been white with blossoms, on quince stocks, 

 on Avhich it grows best. Valuable for market when it 

 succeeds ; some years free from fi-ost, or some other cause 

 aflecting its bearing. High culture very desirable for it. 

 Does w^ell on the quince, and quince only, when it has a 

 soil and climate to suit it. It always gets caught by the 

 frost. We think it will not do here. The Duchess d'An- 

 gouleme should be cultivated only on the quince, and no 



