Winter Roundish or Oblate. 



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JOSEPHINE DE MALINES. Size medium, conic-oblate, yellowish 

 with small dots ; stalk very long, cavity slight, basin large ; flesh 

 of a light salmon color towards the centre, buttery, of a sweet 



Fig. 334. Josephine de Malines, 



and peculiar flavor. The tree forms a handsome pyramid on 

 quince. This is one of the best early winter pears, often keeping 

 till mid-winter and later. Belgian. 



Sieulle. (Beurre Sieulle, Doyenne' Sieulle.) Medium in size, round- 

 ish-oblate, often roundish-obovate, with a very short, obscure 



