nONTIIRETIEN D'ArCff. Pn. CAT. N. Dm. 



D'Auch, but not the Pear cl'Auch of Forsyth, which istlio Colmar. 



7/0/1 Chrt'ticn i>anacln . 



This is one of the most beautiful fruits of its class ; it some- 

 time* attains to live inches and more in height, and four inches 

 three lines in breadth ; it is of an irregular pyramidal form, 

 greatly resembling a calabash, and especially the kind usu- 

 ally called a gourd ; its surface is neither even nor regu- 

 larly rounded, but on the contrary, is covered with projections 

 slightly raised and of considerable breadth, which form them- 

 selves into ridtres of different shape and extent. The eye is 

 placed in a very deep cavity, whose ediies present numerous 

 protuberances, extending more or less over the rest of the 

 fruit; the skin is light green, approximating to pale yellow at 

 maturity, and wholly scattered over with small dots of deep 

 green, some among which are of a russet hue ; the flesh is 

 firm, granulated, breaking, and rather melting notwithstand- 

 ing, full of sweet juice which is agreeably perfumed. The 

 seeds are frequently abortive, and the fruit ripens in November 

 and December. 



CHAl MONTEL. Pu. CAT. N. Dm. I\>K 



yfccy dr ChfimnontcUc. Pr. cat. ~f> ed. 

 Ticzij dc Clinuinontcl. ltd/. (\\c. 

 ftrz? dr Chinimnntrl. ( ). Dull. 

 Yfrs? Chaumontcllc. Mil. 

 Poire dr, Chaumontfllc. \. J")uh. Mil. 

 fic.urrr d'hi/rrr. Ho/. Duh. Mil. 

 n inter HCUTI'( . 

 Winter butler pear. 



The form and the >iy.e ol this jiear are very subject to vary ; 

 in ordinary cases it would rather incline to an ovate form if the 

 part next to the stem \va> not narrower than that next the eye ; 

 M is not uncommon to find the surface- slightly angular on one 

 <-ide or the other- ItusualK measures Jrom twenty-seven lines 



