342 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



Size, medium, three inches long, and two and a half in 

 diameter : Form, pyramidal, regular, with a somewhat un- 

 even surface, large at the crown, and tapering roundly to 



Fig. 17. Styriun. 



the stem : Skin, fair, smooth, yellow when mature, tinged 

 with light red on the sunny side, somewhat traced Avith 

 russet and regularly dotted with russet specks : Stem, me- 

 dium length, about an inch long, slender, slightly fleshy and 

 swollen at the base, and obliquely attached without any 

 cavity : Eye, medium size, open, and but little depressed, in 

 a small shallow basin ; segments of the calyx short : Flesh, 

 yellowish, coarse, melting and juicy : Flavor, sugary, spright- 

 ly perfumed and very good : Core, rather large : Seeds, me- 

 dium size, very short and plump. Ripe in October and 

 November. 



