PKARS. 203 



Stalk an inch lonj^, crooked, curved, obliquely inserted under 

 a small elongated \i[). Skin j)ale yellow, mixed with green ; 

 on the sunny side of an orange-brown, and full of gray 

 russetty specks, which arc the more numerous as they approach 

 the crown. Flesh pale yellow, a little gritty, but very tender 

 and melting. Juice abundant, highly saccharine, with a slight 

 musky perfume. Ripe the end of September, and will keep a 

 few weeks only. This is a very excellent dessert pear, and is 

 grown in the Horticultural Garden at Chiswick upon an open 

 standard." — Lind. 



INCOMMUNICABLE. Lond. hort. cat. Linu. 



L' Incommunicable. Lend. Hort. trans. 



" Fruit above the middle size, pyramidal, and compressed 

 towards the stalk, about three inches and a half long, and two 

 inches and a half in diameter. Eye small, closed by a very 

 short slender calyx, and placed in a very slight narrow depres- 

 sion. Stalk half an inch long, stout, bent, diagonally inserted 

 beneath a small elongated lip. Skin pale grass-green, thickly 

 sprinkled with small gray russetty specks. Flesh yellowish 

 white, tinged near the cone with a slight shade of orange 

 colour, a little gritty, but melting. Juice saccharine, with a 

 slight musky perfume. Ripe the middle to the end of October. 

 It is difficult to conceive the origin of this singular name. It 

 has been attached to one of those newly raised Flemish varie- 

 ties which bear so well and so regularly in the Horticultura 

 Garden at Chiswick upon open standards." — Lind. 



KEIZER. Lo^D. IIORT. CAT. LiXD. 



"Fruit middle-sized, turbinate, gradually tapering from the 

 middle to the stalk, about three inches deep, and two inches 

 and a half in diameter. Eye small, with very short erect 

 segments of the calyx placed in a very narrow depression. 

 Stalk three quarters of an inch long, thick, and wood}-. Skin 

 pale green, becoming yellowish green, thickly sprinkled with 

 small gray russetty specks, and russetty round the stalk. Flesh 



