Descriptions of Six varieties of Pears. 337 



combines several good ones, which renders it worthy of gen- 

 eral cultivation. It is a good bearer, of nearly medium size, 

 and possesses a perfume, much liked by those who prefer 

 musky pears. The name is stated by Lindley to have been 

 given to it by Louis XIV. 



Size^ medium, two and a half inches long, and two inches 

 in diameter : Form^ turbinately pyramidal, large at the 

 crown, and regularly tapering into the stem: Skin, very 

 smooth, shining, pale green, occasionally tinged with red on the 

 sunny side, regularly and minutely covered with dark green 

 specks: Stem, long, one and a half inches, smooth, pale 

 green and brown, and fleshy at its junction with the fruit: 

 Eye, large, open, rather prominent, in a scarcely depressed 

 basin: Flesh, white, fine, tender and juicy : Flavor, saccha- 

 rine, with a peculiar musky aroma : Core, large : Seeds, me- 

 dium size, dark brown. Ripe in the early part of Septem- 

 ber. 



42. Calebasse. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 



Calehasse double Extra, \ 



Calebasse d'Hollande, > According to Hort. Soc. Cat. 



Beurr6 de Payence. ) 



Calebasse Musque, Knoop Pom. according to Lindl. 



Calebasse Ordinaire, of some French collections. 



Much confusion has been caused by the term Calebasse, 

 (in allusion to the form of the fruit,) applied to no less than 

 seven or eight different pears. Thus, we have the Calebasse 

 Bosc, Calebasse Fondante, Calebasse Marianne, Calebasse 

 Vert, Calebasse Vasse, Calebasse Banchau, Calebasse Mon- 

 streiise, and the variety now under notice i^fig. 22) known as 

 the Calebasse. None of these varieties, however, appear to 

 have been known or proved in the London Horticullural So- 

 ciety's garden, when the last edition of the catalogue was 

 published, except the Calebasse; the trees received as the 

 Calebasse Vasse, and Calebasse Bosc, having proved synon- 

 ymous with other kinds. 



We have now before us specimens of the Calebasse, Cal- 

 ebasse Bosc, and Beurre Bosc, each of them distinct fruits, 

 but'tieither of them yet in eating. Noisette, in his Jardin 

 Fruiterer, figures a pear which he calls the Calebasse Bosc, 



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