PEARS. 97 



Hiid it will be perceived that it also obtained its most popular 

 title from the circumstance of original locality. 



This variety can be ingrafted on either the pear or the 

 quince. 



LOUISE BONNE. PR. CAT. QJJIN. Roz. Dun. MIL. FOR. 



Bonne Louise. I Avanchie. 



Good Louise. Evel. Good Louis. 



This greatly resembles the St. Germain in form, and is also 

 nearly of the same size, but it is far from possessing as perfect 

 and excellent a flavour. It differs from it besides in its skin, 

 which is of a very light green colour, and becomes whitish at 

 perfect maturity ; the dots with which it is covered over are 

 not dark, and they are so very small that they do not prevent 

 it from being smooth ; the flesh is half-melting, sometimes in- 

 sipid, at others possessing a partial musky odour, but when 

 the tree is planted in a cold and humid situation, the fruit often 

 has a mouldy taste ; the seeds are brown, well matured, and 

 pointed, and the period at which this pear ripens is in Novem- 

 ber and December. I received a pear under this title some 

 years since from England, which was much more of a turbi- 

 nate form, but deeming it erroneous, I have discontinued its 

 culture. 



POIRE A GOBERT. Roz. DUH. 



This fruit is thirty-three lines in height and thirty in diame- 

 ter, and its form is like that of a top ; the eye is placed in a 

 slight depression, and the stem, which is pretty large and of 

 moderate length, is inserted even with the extremity of the 

 fruit ; the skin is red next to the sun, and green on the shaded 

 side which becomes yellow in ripening ; the flesh is very white, 

 half-breaking, and musky ; the seeds are usually abortive and 

 the cells very small. This fruit will keep until the month of 

 June. 



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