MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



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CLASS I. Most generally esteemed. 



Ananas D'Ete. 

 Ananas, of some^ \ Poire Ananas, 



Foreign. A superior variety that deserves extensive planting. Tree, 

 vigorous, light brown wood, with white oblong dots, early regular bearer, 

 fruit always large and excellent. 



Fruity large, oblong, obovate pyriform, angular ; color^ dull yellowish 

 green, with much rough brown russet marbling; stem^ largest at base, 

 or where it joins the fruit, and with a lip one .side ; calyx, open, short divi- 

 sions ; hasin^ shallow, open ; core^ compact, capsules small : seeds^ long 

 ovate; fleshy whitish, fine-grained, buttery, melting, sweet, perfumed 



