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THE PEAR. 



Alexandre Lambre. 

 Foreign, Fruit, medium, roundish, compressed at ends, yellowish green, 

 mottled with red in sun, russet at base of stem and calyx; stem, stout, 

 calyx, in a flat basin ] flesh, greenish white, melting, juicy, sweet ; core, 

 small ; seeds, plump, acute pointed. November, December. 



Alexandrine Douillard. 



Foreign. Tree, vigorous. Fruit, above medium, pyriform ovate ; yel- 

 lowish ; stem, long ; flesh, white, juicy, sugary. November, December. 



Ananas de Courtrai. 

 Foreign. Tree, very vigorous and productive, takes readily any form ; 

 turbinate, pyriform ; skin, citron-yellow at maturity, beautifully colored on 

 the sunny side \ flesh, white, firm, buttery, melting, sweet and juicy, plea- 

 santly perfumed, but not musky. Ripens at the end of August. (An. Pom.) 



Andrews. 



American. An early bearer, a little disposed to decay at core, otherwise 

 highly desirable. Fruit, large (our drawing too small for an average), 

 roundish, ovale pyriform, yellowish green, dull red cheek, scattered dots 

 and russet patches : calyx, open ; segments, long, half reflexed ; basin, 

 small ; stem, one to one and a quarter inch, curved, often set without 

 depression ; flesh, greenish white, juicy, vinous, nearly " best." September. 



