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Descriptions and Engravings 



of which have yet fruited in American collections. These 

 are the Beurre Superfine and the Beurre Robin. — Ed.] 



1. Beurre' Superfine. 



Size, rather large, three and three quarters inches long, and 

 three and a quarter in diameter : Form, irregular, turbinate : 

 Stem, stout, and wrinkled at the base, fleshy, large, one inch 

 long : Eye, small, set nearly even with the surface : Skin, 

 yellowish green, with broad, grayish, scattered patches, and 

 numerous small brown specks : Flesh, whitish, with some 

 yellow or brown lines or specks : Juice, abundant, agreeably 

 perfumed. Ripe in September. 



Fig. 31. Doyenni Goubault. 



It is a fine pear, of first rate quality, and one that every 

 cultivator will add to his collection when it is better known. 



Tree, a good grower, with upright shoots, the young wood 

 yellow or grayish : buds, large, brown : the leaves green. 



