PEARS. 



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covered with russctty spots. Flesh yellowish, perfectly melt- 

 ing, remarkably sweet, and very agreeably perfumed. Kipc 

 in November, and will keep a month or more. Raised by M. 

 Parmenticr, at Engliicn, and exhibited at the Horticultural 

 Society in 1 820."— 7>/w^. 



BISHOP'S THUMB. Pr. cat. Loxd. iiokt. cat. Li>d. 



"Fruit long, rather slender, slightly tapering from the crown 

 to the stalk, having an irregular and slightly knobby outline, 

 in the manner of the Calebash, about three inches and three 

 quarters long, and two inches in diameter. Eye small, open, 

 with slender segments of the calyx, slightly sunk in an uneven 

 hollow. Stalk one inch and a half long, slender, recurved, 

 and obliquely inserted in a two-lipped cavity. Skin dark 

 green, almost wholly covered with an iron-coloured russet, on 

 the sunny side of a dark rufous brown, thickly sprinkled with 

 gray russetty dots. Flesh greenish yellow, melting, with an 

 abundance of rich, saccharine, high flavoured juice. Ripe the 

 middle to the end of October. A very excellent pear, although 

 its figure is far from being handsome. Decidedly distinct from 

 Calebash." — Lind. 



BONCHRETIEN FONDANTE. Lokd. hort. cat. Lind. 



Melting BonchrHien. 



*' Fruit above the middle size, oblong, with a pretty regular 

 outline, about three inches and a half long, and two inches and 

 three quarters in diameter. Eye small, with a closed calyx, 

 slightly sunk in "a narrow and pretty regular hollow. Stalk 

 three quarters of an inch long, rather stout, curved, and shghtly 

 inserted in a narrow round cavity. Skin pale green, a good 

 part of which is covered with a deep cinnamon russet, thickly 

 sprinkled with Hght-coloured russetty specks. Flesh yellowish 

 white, a little gritty, but rich and buttery, and full of a highly 

 saccharine rich-flavoured juice. Ripe the end of October, and 

 will keep a month. This most excellent pear is also a newly 

 raised Flemish variety, grown in the Horticultural Society's 

 garden at Chiswick, on an open standard." — Lind. 



