MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



849 



SOLDAT LaBOUREUR D'EsPERIN. 

 Auguste Van Krans, I Beurre de Ehine. 



This variety is usually grown in this country under the name of Soldat 

 l^aboureur. ft is entirely distinct from the -'Soldat Laboureur " of the 

 French, which is regarded as our Beurre d'Aremberg. It was grown b> 

 Major Esperin, of Malines ; is of strong, vigorous, upright growth, yellow- 

 ish brown wood, succeeding finely on the Quince, producing abundantly, 

 and its fruit well disseminated over the tree, always large and fair, but of 

 only second-rate quality. 



Fruit, large, generally oblong obovate pyriform, sometimes obovatc pyri- 

 forin ; color, greenish yellow, becoming yellow, with many patches, stripes 

 and dots of russet ; stem, short, stout, curved, in a slight round depression, 

 or rather a raised lip one side ; calyx, open, sometimes round, regular, and 

 without divisions, others have stout persistent segments in divisions j 

 core, compact, with outer concentric lines ; seeds, obovate ; flesh, rather 

 coarse, juicy, melting, perfumed; "very good." December to February. 



