THE PEAR. 493 



DocTEUR Lentier. Gregoirc. 



Tree vigorous and productive. Fruit medium, pyriform. 

 Skin bright green, becoming slightly yellow at maturity. Flesh 

 fine, melting, buttery, juice abundant, sugary, and deliciously 

 perfumed. Mature at the end of October and November. 

 (An. Fom.) 



Docteur Bouvier. Van Mons. 



A vigorous tree, forming a beautiful pyramid, very productive. 



Fruit medium, elongated, truncate, conic, inclining to pyri- 

 form, or remotely so. Skin greenish, becoming slightly yellow 

 at maturity, sprinkled, shaded, and dotted with russet, some- 

 times slightly crimson and fawn in the sun. Flesh a little 

 coarse, juicy, melting, with a brisk, vinous, slightly perfumed 

 llavour. December to February. 



Docteur Capron. Bivort. 



A new pear of good promise, it has a thick skin of greenish 

 yellow colour, covered with blotches of russet red in the sun, and 

 russet specks. Calyx closed. Flesh yellowish white, melting, 

 of a pleasant, rather spirited flavour. October, November. 

 (Hov. Mag.) 



Dr. Trousseau. Bivort. 



A seedling of Alex. Bivort. Fruit large, pyriform. Skin 

 green, spotted with red, and sprinkled with grey dots. Stalk 

 strong and woody. Flesh firm, white, melting, buttery, with an 

 abundance of perfumed sugary juice. Ripe, November, Decem- 

 ber. (An. Pom.) 



Duchesse d'Orleans. Thomp. Ken. 



Beurre St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas. 



Fruit rather above medium, obovate, including to pyriform, 

 largest near the centre. Skin yellowish-green, sometimes a 

 sunny cheek, with brown dots. Stalk long, pretty large, curved, 

 inserted by a fleshy protuberance. Calyx nearly closed, set in 

 a shallow uneven basin. Flesh juicy, melting, slightly aromatic, 

 with a very good flavour. September. 



Duchesse de Berry d'ete. 



Fruit small, oblate, obscurely pyriform. Skin yellow, shaded 

 with light red. Stalk short, inserted in a small cavity. Calyx 



