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is far better when cooked or made into preserves (compotes) 

 than raw ; the tree is vigorous, and can be grafted ou either 

 the pear or the quince. 



CHAPTAL. Pk. cat. N. Urn. 



This fruit is of pyramidal form, four inches wanting three 

 lines in height, and twenty-three lines in diameter at the broad- 

 est part ; the stem, which is about an inch long, is usually in- 

 serted somewhat obliquejy in a small cavity, in consequence of 

 one side being covered with a protuberance which inclines it 

 sideways ; the eye is situated in a depression neither deep nor 

 wide, and regularly formed in its circumference ; the skin is 

 of a rather dull green, varying to yellowish at perfect maturity 

 — the side exposed to the sun's rays attains a slight reddish 

 tint ; the flesh is firm, somewhat dry, pleasant, accompanied 

 by a little sweetness, but not high flavoured — when cooked, 

 however, it acquires a very sweet flavour; the seeds are brown, 

 very oblong and much pointed; the most part being abortive ; 

 the cells which contain them are arranged round the axis of 

 the fruit which is hollow ; this pear ripens in January and Feb- 

 ruary ; it was raised from seed some years since by M. Hervy, 

 director of the Luxembourg nursery, who gave it the title at- 

 tached to it, and by whom it was presented to the editors of 

 the New Duhamel. M. Chaptal, whose name it bears, was 

 then Minister of the Interior, and it was under his auspices 

 that the celebrated nursery referred to was re-established, which 

 had been previously known by the name of Chartreux. 



CATILLAC. Pr. cat. Roz. Duh. Mil. For. 



Cadillac. 



Franc real, of some American gardens. 



This pear is a very beautiful fruit, commonly quite round at 

 tiie head and diminishing more or less in size towards the stalk, 

 which gives it a somewhat turbinate form ; it is three inches 

 eight or nine lines in its greatest diameter, and three inches 



