450 THE PEAR. 



Fruit medium size, obovate, a little inclining to oblong. Skin 

 smooth, pale yellowish-green, dotted with reddish points, and 

 having a thin, pale brown blush. Stalk about an inch long, 

 inserted in a slight depression. Calyx stiff, open, set in a round 

 basin of moderate size. Flesh white, fine grained, buttery, and 

 good. Middle of October. 



Amir6 Joannet. Thomp. 



Early sugar, Pom. Man. St. Jean. 

 Sugar Pear. Joannette. 



Harvest Pear. St. John's Pear. 



Archduc d'ete ? 



This fruit, better known here as the Early Sugar pear, is 

 one of the very earliest, ripening at the beginning of July — in 

 France, whence it originally comes, about St. John's day — 

 whence the name, Joannet. It is a pleasant fruit, of second 

 quality, and lasts but a few days in perfection. It opens the 

 pear season, with the little Muscat, to which it is superiour. 

 Fruit below the middle size, regularly pyriform, tapering to the 

 stalk, which is an inch and a half long, and thickest at the point 

 of junction. Skin very smooth, at first light green, but becomes 

 bright lemon colour at maturity — very rarely with a faint blush. 

 Calyx large, with reflexed segments, even with the surface. 

 Flesh white, sugary, delicate and juicy at first, but soon becomes 

 mealy ; seeds very pointed. Head of the tree open, with a few 

 declining branches. 



Ananas de Courtrai. 



Tree very vigorous and productive, takes readily any form ; 

 turbinate, pyriform. Skin citron-yellow at maturity, beauti- 

 fully coloured on the sunny side. Flesh white, firm, buttery, 

 melting, sweet and juicy, pleasantly perfumed, but not musky. 

 Ripens at the end of August. (An. Pom.) 



Ananas D'Et6. Thomp. 

 Ananas, {of Manning.) 



This fruit was first received from the London Horticultural 

 Society, by Mr. Manning. It is a very excellent pear, with a 

 rich and somewhat peculiar flavour, but should rather be called 

 an autumn pine-apple, than a summer one. 



Fruit rather large, pyriform, or occasionally obtuse at the 

 stalk. Skin rough and coarse, dark yellowish-green, with a 

 little brown on one side, and much covered with large rough, 

 brown russet dots. Stalk an inch and a quarter long, inserted 

 sometimes in a blunt cavity, sometimes without depression, by 

 the side of a lip. Calyx open, with short divisions, basin shal- 



