PEARS. 363 



diameter. Eye small, rather prominent, surrounded by 

 a few slight plaits. Stalk an inch long, rather stout, 

 curved, with a small embossment at its insertion. Skin 

 yellow on the shaded side, but of a beautiful red, with 

 numerous darker dots, where exposed to the sun. Flesh 

 white, tender, and full of a very rich perfumed juice. 



It ripens upon the tree the end of September, and 

 will not keep above two or three weeks. 



This succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



62. A LEX ANDRE DE RUSSIE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 5. 



Fruit above the middle size, somewhat obliquely pyra- 

 midal, with a very uneven knobby surface, about three 

 inches and a half long, and two inches and three quarters 

 in diameter. Eye open, with short narrow segments of 

 the calyx, placed in a shallow, narrow, plaited hollow. 

 Stalk half an inch long, thick, almost horizontally in* 

 serted under an elongated knobby lip. Skin greenish 

 yellow, but almost wholly covered with a cinnamon- 

 grey russet. Flesh almost white, gritty, but tender 

 and mellow. Juice saccharine, with a slight musky 

 perfume. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of October, but will 

 not keep more than two or three weeks. 



This is a very fine Bonchretien-shaped variety, which 

 has been lately raised in Flanders, and sent to the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, in whose garden it, in 1830, produced 

 some uncommonly fine fruit upon an open standard, 

 from which this description is taken. 



63. AUTUMN COLMAR. Hort. Gard. Coll. 

 Fruit middle-sized, oblong, in shape that of a Colmar, 



but irregular in its outline, about three inches long, and 

 two inches and a half in diameter. Eye small, with a 

 short converging calyx, slightly sunk in an uneven 

 depression. Stalk an inch long, straight, inserted in a 

 small uneven cavity. Skin pale yellow, sprinkled with 

 russetty specks, which become broader on the sunny 



