WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. 

 SOLDAT D'ESPERIN ESPERIN SOLDIER. 



Soldat Laboureur d'Esperiu 



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

 dat 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, yellowish 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 obo- 

 vate pyriform ; 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 ; calyx, open, 

 sometimes round, regular, and without divisions, others have stout 

 persistent segments in divisions ; core, compact, with outer concentric 

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