Messrs. Baumanns, of Bollwiller, under the name 

 of Calville d'Angleterre. 



SHOOTS straggling and rather slender; dark 

 chestnut, covered with a silvery gray pubescence, 

 thinly sprinkled with small whitish dots. 



LEAVES small, oval, narrow, tapering to the 

 point, somewhat concave, rather sharply serrated 

 beneath silvery light green. 



FLOWERS middle-sized. PETALS ovate, with a 

 longish claw; not imbricated when fully expanded. 



FRUIT moderately large, of an ovate form and 

 angular. STALK from half an inch to an inch in 

 length, not deeply inserted. EYE closed by the 

 segments of the calyx, and sunk among knobby 

 protuberances arising from the terminations of the 

 angles on the sides. SKIN dull green on the 

 shaded side, and on the sunned side intermixed with 

 brownish red, and a slight sprinkling of russet, with 

 sometimes streaks of richer red when well exposed. 

 FLESH yellowish, firm, and very rich ; when cut it 

 gives out a pleasant perfume resembling the Clove 

 Gilliflower, whence its name. 



