THE PEAK. 585 



dotted with red and russet points or dots on the sunny side. 

 Flesh yellowish-white, buttery, sugary. September. 



Windsor. Lind. Thomp. 



Summer Bell. Cuisse Madame, of some. 

 Konge. 



The Windsor is an old European pear, very commonly known 

 in some parts of this country, as the Summer Bell pear. It is, 

 however, only a .cooking fruit. The tree is remarkable for its 

 stout, perfectly upright dark-brown shoots. 



Fruit large, pyriform, or bell-shaped, widest above the middle, 

 narrowing to the eye. Skin yellowish-green. Flesh white, 

 tender, or soft, coarse-grained, with a somewhat astringent 

 juice. Rots at the core. Last of x\ugust. 



Yat. Lind. Thomp. 



Yutte. 



A Dutch pear. The trees have slender, drooping branches. 

 Fruit small, turbinate. Skin brown russet. Flesh white, ten- 

 der, juicy, with a sugary, perfumed flavour. Piots quickly. 

 September. 



Selection of cJioice Pears to r'q^en in succession^ from July to 

 April. — Doyenne d'Ete Madeline, Bloodgood, Dearborn's Seed- 

 ling, Beune Giffard, Rostiezer, Ott, Bartlett, Tyson, Osbands' 

 Sumner, Belle Lucrative, Flemish Beauty, Beurre Bosc, Doy- 

 enne White, Doyenne Boussock, Beurre d'Anjou, Seckel, Ur- 

 baniste, Sheldon, Church, Beurre Diel-Dix, Beurre Langelier, 

 Lawrence, Winter Nelis, Beurre d'Aremberg, Beurre Gris d'Hi- 

 ver Nouveau, Easter Beurre. 



Selection of Pears for a cold climate. — Doyenne d'Ete, Blood- 

 good, Rostiezer, Fulton, Heathcote, Buftum, Beuri-e Bosc, 

 Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonne de Jersey on quince. Belle 

 Lucrative, Urbaniste, McLaughlin, Dix, Beurre Diel, Beun-e 

 d'Amanlis, White Doyenne, Lewis, Winter Nelis, Princes St. 

 Germain, Glou Morceau on quince, Janiinette, Vicar of Wink- 

 field, Doyenne d'Hiver Nouveau. 



Selection of Pears for dwarfs on quince stocks. — Belle Lucra- 

 tive, Beurre d'Amanlis, Beurre Diel, Beurre Langelier, Beurre 

 d'Anjou, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Doyenne d'Ete, Doyenne 

 Boussock, Easter Beurre, Figue d'Aleugon, Glou Morceau, 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey, Napoleon, Nouveau Poiteau, Rostiezer, 

 Soldat Laboureur, St. Michael Archangel, Urbaniste, Uvedale's 

 St. Germain or Pound (for baking). Vicar of Winkfield, White 

 Doyenne. 



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