MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



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core, small, compact : seeds, few, dark brown ; flesh, white, rather coarse, 

 melting, juicy, vinous. Last of August, first of September. Succeeds on 

 Quince. 



BEURRE Bosc, 

 Calebasse Bosc, | Marianne Nouvelle, | Bosc'a Flaschenbirne. 



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A foreign variety, raised in 1807, by Van Mons. It is an early, annual, 

 and productive bearer on the pear roots, and should have a place in the 

 smallest collection. Tree, vigorous, with long brownish olive shoots strag 

 gling or diverging. The fruit varies some in size and form, as see our 

 checked outline in engraving, but it is always fair and smooth. 



Fruit, large, obovate acute pyriform ; color, dark yellow, nearly covered, 



