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cribed, except in the Catalogue of the London Horticuhural 

 Society, where it is classed among the finest kinds. Mr. 



Fig. 12. Duchesse de Mars Pear. 



Manning does not mention it in his Book of Fruits, or in any 

 of his descriptions in our Magazine, and we are not aware 

 that he fruited it in his extensive collection. Of its origin 

 we are ignorant, but we presume it to have been raised in 

 France or Belgium. The first specimens we saw of this va- 

 riety were raised by Mr. S. Walker from a tree received from 

 France. It proves, as Mr. Thompson has stated, a pear of 

 first rate quality. 



Size., medium, about two and a half inches long, and two 

 and a half in diameter : Form., obovate, full and broad at the 

 crown, gradually tapering to the stem, where it ends obtusely: 

 Skin, smooth, thick, pale yellowish green, much tinged with 

 bright red on the sunny side, regularly covered with pale 

 russet specks, interspersed with a few dark green dots, and 

 russeted at the base of the stem : Stem, medium length, about 

 an inch, smooth, stout, pale brown, obliquely inserted in a 

 contracted cavity, with a slight projection on one side : Eye, 

 small, open, and deeply sunk, in a regularly rounded cavity ; 



