THE PEAR. 



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are pale yellow, upright and slender. The original tree, about 

 thirty-five years old, stands in the garden of Madam Dix, Bos- 

 ton. It bore for the first time in 1826. 



Fruit large, oblong, or long pyriform. Skin roughish, fine 

 deep yellow at maturity, marked with distinct russet dots, and 

 sprinkled with russet around the stalk. Calyx small, for so 

 large a fruit, basin narrow, and scarcely at all sunk. Stalk 

 rather stout, short, thicker at each end, set rather obliquely, but 

 with little or no depression. Flesh not very fine grained, but 

 juicy, rich, sugary, melting, and delicious, with a slight per- 

 fume. October and November. 



Doyenne Boussock. 



Doyenne Boussouck nouvelle. Beurre de Merode. 

 Double Philippe. 



Tree vigorous, an early and productive bearer. Fruit vary- 

 ing in form, obovate, inclining to conic, large specimens oblate. 

 Skin rough, deep yellow, netted and clouded with russet, with a 



Doyenne Boussock. 

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