THE PEAR. 703 



BLANQUET ANASTERE. 

 Blanquet Anasterque. Blanquet d'Austrasia. 



A French Pear, of poor quality. 



Fruit small, pyriform, yellowish green, with a tinge of brown in the 

 sun. Flesh white, coarse, breaking, rots easily. August. 



Large Seckel. 

 Fe aster. 



BLEECKER'S MEADOW. 



Heidelberg-. 

 Spice Butter. 



Meadow Feaster. 

 Frankford. 



A native fruit, said to have been found in a meadow in Pennsylva- 

 nia. It is a handsome, hardy fruit, and bears large crops, but it has 

 been overpraised as to quality. 



Fruit small, roundish. Skin bright clear yellow, with crimson dots 

 on the sunny side. Flesh very white, firm, with a peculiar musky or 

 wasp-like aroma and spicy taste, but mostly remains crisp and hard. 

 Stalk straight and stiff. Basin shallow. Calyx open and reflexed. 

 Good. October and November. 



Bloodgood. 



BLOODGOOD. 

 Early Beurre. 

 The Bloodgood is the highest flavored of all early Pears, and de- 



