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white, a little gritty, but tender and mellow. Juice sugary, 

 with a slight perfume. Ripe the end of September, and will 

 keep two or three weeks. This is a Scotch variety, and par- 

 takes something of the Swan's Egg. It is a desirable and 

 hardy fruit." — Liml. 



ALEXANDRE DE RUSSIE. Pr. cat. Lond. iiokt. cat. Lind. 



Poire Alexandre. 



" Fruit above the middle size, somewhat obliquely pyramidal, ' 

 with a very uneven knobby surface, about three inches and a 

 half long, and two inches and three quarters in diameter. Eye 

 open, with short narrow segments of the calyx, placed in a 

 shallow, narrow plaited, hollow. Stalk half an inch long, 

 thick, almost horizontally inserted under an elongated knobby 

 lip. Skin greenish yellow, but almost wholly covered with 

 a cinnamon gray russet. Flesh almost white, grittj^, but tender 

 and mellow. Juice saccharine, with a slight musky perfume. 

 Ripe the beginning and middle of October, but will not keep 

 more than two or three weeks. This is a very fine Bonchre- 

 tien-shaped variety, which has been lately raised in Flanders, 

 and sent to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden, it in 

 1830, produced some uncommonly fine fruit upon an open 

 standard, from which this description is taken.". — Lind, 



AUTUMN COLMAR. Lixd. Hort. card. col. 

 Bcurrd Colmar iTautonine ? Colmar d'automne 1 

 *' Fruit middle-sized, oblong, its shape that of a Colmar, but 

 irregular in its outline, about three inches long, and two inches 

 and a half in diameter. Eye small, with a short converging 

 calyx, slightly sunk in an uneven depression. Stalk an inch 

 long, straight, inserted in a small uneven cavity. Skin pale 

 yellow, sprinkled with russetty specks, which become broader 

 on the sunny side and spread into a thin russet. Flesh rather 

 gritty but mellow, with a sugary and slightly perfumed juice. 

 Ripe the beginning of October, but will not keep more than 

 two or three weeks in perfection. This is another of the new 

 Flemish pears, grown in the Horticultural Society's garden 



