204 Description of Select Varieties of Pears. 



alter our opinion, and we now class it among our best Winter 

 pears ; it is not as rich as the Winter Nelis, or Beurre Lange- 

 lier, but it has a peculiar flavor, a fine flesh, and last year was 

 so very fair that we considered it a desirable acquisition. In 

 the habit of the tree and ^the appearance of the leaves, it so 

 nearly approaches the Passe Colmar, as to lead to the suppo- 

 sition that it must be a seedling from that pear. The fruit 

 ripens about the same season, and though not so rich as that 

 variety, when well grown, is a most excellent winter fruit. 



The tree grows well on the quince, though we think it 

 does better on the pear. It has the peculiarity of bearing 

 upon the extreme ends of the annual shoots. Wood, clear 

 light yellow, short jointed, and only moderately stout. 



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

 and a half in diameter : Form, roundish obovate, reguleir, 

 large and full at the crown, and tapering to an obtuse point 

 at the stem : Skin, fair, smooth, deep rich yellow when ma- 

 ture, somewhat traced with russet, tinged with blush on the 

 sunny side, and thickly covered with prominent russet 

 specks : Stem, medium length, about three-quarters of an 

 inch long, stout, straight, little swollen at the base, and 

 obliquely inserted, with scarcely any cavity : Eye, medium 

 size, open, and little sunk in a large, round, regular basin ; 

 segments of the calyx, long, pointed, twisted, reflexed : Flesh, 

 yellowish, fine, melting and juicy : Flavor, vinous, sprightly 

 and rich, with a delicate perfume : Core, rather large : Seeds, 

 medium size, sharply pointed, full, dark brown. Ripe in 

 January and February. 



156. Bonne des Zees. ' 



Bonne d'Ezee, 

 Bonne des haies 



} French and Belgian Catalogues. 



The French and Belgian catalogues do not seem to agree 

 upon the name of this new and superior pear, (fig. 19, J and 

 we adopt that under which we received it, and under which 

 it is known in most collections. 



It is a most excellent variety. We first saw it in the collec- 

 tion of M. Jamin, in the fall of 1844, and then thought it 



