yellowish green with occasional red brown flush. Skin, 

 slightly rough with thin brown russet. Flesh, melting, 

 yellowish white, very juicy and pleasantly sweet. 

 Eye, open in a very slight basin. Stem, slender, 

 woody. Growth, vigorous and very straggling. Leaf, 

 rather large, oval pointed, sharply curved serrate, flat, 

 down hanging, turning yellow then black. Origin, 

 raised at Amanlis near Rennes, France, before 1800, 

 and introduced to notice in 1826. This pear does well 

 as a standard and in all forms. It thrives well in 

 Scotland and is in all ways a cosmopolitan fruit. 



BEURRE D'ANJOU. F. Nee Plus Meuris. G. 

 Winter Meuris. Dessert, November to January, fairly 

 large, 4 by 3, round oval, very even. Skin, smooth with 

 a few feathery russet patches. Colour, pale yellow with 

 occasional slight brown flush. Flesh, white, melting, 

 flavour most delicious. Eye, open, laid back, almost 

 on level. Stem, short and stout, fleshy. Growth, 

 moderate ; fertility, fair. Leaf, narrow oval, upfolded, 

 down hanging, undulated, regularly serrate, light green 

 turning pale yellow, occasionally red. Origin, a seedling 

 of Van Mons ; the name Beurr d'Anjou, though wrong, 

 is now so firmly rooted in this country that it must 

 remain. 



BEURRE D'ARENBERG. Her. Pom. II., 70. 

 G. Die Arenberg. (Orpheline d'Enghien, Colmar 

 Deschamps.) Dessert, November to January, 4 by 3 J or 

 larger, round conical, uneven, a little ribbed round eye 

 and generally bossed. Skin, fairly smooth. Colour, 

 yellow with small patches of russet all over and brown 

 red flush. Flesh, nearly white, juicy and sweet with 

 a characteristic aroma, sometimes a little gritty. Eye, 

 open. Stem, in., very stout, woody, obliquely inserted 

 under a small protuberance. Growth, very stout, 

 moderate fertility variable. Leaf, large, upfolded, 

 finely serrate. Origin, according to Van Mons this was 

 obtained at Enghien by Abbe Deschamps in a garden 

 of the Orphanage of this town. A good fruit doing 

 well on quince but it does not thrive in all soils. 



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