MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



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SOLDAT LABOUREUR D'ESPERIN. 

 Auguste Van Krans, | Beurrfe de Ehin*. 



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

 Laboureur. It is entirely distinct from the "Soldat Laboureur " of the 

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

 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 obovate pyri- 

 form ; 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 ; caZyx, open, sometimes round, regular, and 

 without divisions, others have stout persistent segments in divisions; 

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

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



