THE PEAR. 453 



AUGUSTE ROYER. Durieux. 



Tree very vigorous and productive, and promises to be a 

 valuable orchard fruit. 



Fruit medium, turbinate. Skin russet-fawn, becoming 

 orange. Flesh whitish-yellow, melting, juice abundant, sugary, 

 and pleasantly perfumed. Ripe, November. (An. Pom.) 



AUTUMN COLMAR. Thorap. Lind. 



A French pear, of fair quality, and a good bearer. 



Fruit of medium size, oblong or obtuse-pyriform, a little un- 

 even. Skin pale green, dotted with numerous russety specks. 

 Stalk about an inch long, straight, planted in a small, uneven 

 cavity. Calyx small, closed, set in a slight basin, a little fur- 

 rowed. Flesh a little gritty at the core, buttery, with a rich and 

 agreeable flavour, October. 



BARRY. 



Raised by Andre Leroy and dedicated to Mr. Barry. 



Fruit medium, pyriform, irregularly shaped. Skin rough, red, 

 spotted on the sunny side, yellowish on the other. Stalk short, 

 obliquely inserted. Calyx small, basin narrow. Flesh white, 

 coarse, tender at the centre, very juicy, sugary, and perfumed. 

 A first rate pear. Ripe October. (Leroy's Cat.) 



BARRONNE DE MELLE. 



Ad&e de St. Denis. 



Of foreign origin. Tree vigorous and productive. Fruit me- 

 dium, Bergamotte shaped, inclining to turbinate. Skin rough, 

 yellow, mostly covered with cinnamon russet. Stalk of medium 

 length, inserted, at an inclination, by a lip or ring. Calyx closed, 

 or partially open, set in a broad, shallow, uneven basin. Flesh 

 whitish, a little coarse, gritty at the core, juicy, melting with a 

 vinous, sub-acid flavour, slightly perfumed. Last of Sept. and Oct. 



BEAUVALOT. (Sageret.) 



Of foreign origin. Tree vigorous. Fruit rather above me- 

 dium, conic, approaching pyriform, inclined, angular. Skin 

 greenish-yellow, slightly sprinkled and patched with russet, and 

 thickly covered with russet dots. Stalk of medium length, in- 

 clined, and inserted by a lip in a very slight depression. Calyx 

 rather small, open. Segments caduceous or reflexed. Basin 

 small and uneven. Flesh greenish, very juicy, melting, scarcely 

 buttery, with a pleasant, refreshing, vinous flavour. Nov. Dec. 



