THE PEAR. 835 



POUND. 



Uvedale's St. Germain. Bolivar d'Hiver. 



Winter Bell. Comtesse de Terweuren. 



Bretagne le Cour. Duchesse de Berry d'Hiver. 



Belle Angevine. Gros fin or long d'Hiver. 



Belle de Jersey. Union. 



Du Tonneau. Grosse de Bruxelles. 



Royal d'Angleterre. La Quintinye. 



Beaute de Tervueren. Grosse Dame Jeanne. 



Pickering Pear. Louise Bonne d'Hiver. 



Lent St. Germain. Bellissime d'Hiver, du Bur. 



Cordelier. Abbe Mongein. 



Anderson. Chamber's Large. 



Angora ? Dr. Udales Warden. 



D' Horticulture. German Baker. 



Berthebirn. Pickering's Warden. 



Bolivar. Piper. 

 Faux-Bolivar. 



The Pound, or "Winter Bell Pear, valued only for cooking, is an 

 abundant bearer, and a profitable orchard crop. The trees are strong 

 and healthy, with very stout, upright, dark-colored wood. 



Fruit large, pyriform, swollen at the crown, and narrowing gradually 

 to a point at the insertion of the stalk. Skin yellowish green, with a 

 brown cheek (yellow and red when long kept), and sprinkled with 

 numerous brown russet dots. Stalk two inches or more long, stout, 

 bent. Calyx crumpled, set in a narrow, slight basin. Flesh firm and 

 solid, stews red, and is excellent baked or preserved. 



PRAIRIE DU POND. 



Introduced by A. H. Ernst. 



Fruit small, nearly globular, greenish yellow, with many brown and 

 green dots. Flesh whitish, moderately juicy, half melting, vinous, 

 astringent. Poor. September 



PRATT. 



A native of Rhode Island. Tree a vigorous upright grower, very 

 productive. Young wood olive brown. 



Fruit medium, obtuse pyriform. Skin greenish yellow, shaded with 

 crimson, and sprinkled with numerous russet and conspicuous dots, fre- 

 quently patched and netted with russet. Stalk long, slender, curved, 

 inserted in a regular cavity. Calyx open, set in a broad, shallow basin. 

 Flesh white, juicy, melting, briskly vinous, and saccharine, variable, 

 but when in perfection of great excellence. Good to very good. 

 Ripens last of September. 



PRECILLY. 



A Belgian Pear. Tree rery vigorous, productive. 



Fruit medium to large, obovate acute pyriform, greenish yellow, 

 netted and patched with russet, and sprinkled with brown dots. 

 Flesh yellowish white, coarse, juicy, breaking. Good for cooking. Oc- 

 tober. 



