366 PEARS. 



perfectly melting, remarkably sweet, and very agreeably 

 perfumed. 



Ripe in November, and will keep a month or more. 



Raised by M. Parmentier, at Enghien, and exhibited 

 at the Horticultural Society in 1820. 



69. BISHOP'S THUMB. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 126. 

 Fruit long, rather slender, slightly tapering from the 



crown to the stalk, having an irregular and slightly 

 knobby outline, in the manner of the Calebasse, about 

 three inches and three quarters long, and two inches in 

 diameter. Eye small, open, with slender segments of 

 the calyx, slightly sunk in an uneven hollow. Stalk 

 one inch and a half long, slender, recurved, and obliquely 

 inserted in a two-lipped cavity. Skin dark green, 

 almost wholly covered with an iron-coloured russet, on 

 the sunny side of a dark rufous brown, thickly sprinkled 

 with grey russetty dots. Flesh greenish yellow, melt- 

 ing, with an abundance of rich, saccharine, high- 

 flavoured juice. 



Ripe the middle to the end of October. 



A very excellent Pear, although its figure is far from 

 being handsome. Decidedly distinct from Calebasse. 



70. BONCHRETIEN FoNDANTE. Hort. Soc. Cat. 



No. 138. 



Fruit above the middle size, oblong, with a pretty 

 regular outline, about three inches and a half long, and 

 two inches and three quarters in diameter. Eye small, 

 with a closed calyx, slightly sunk in a narrow and pretty 

 regular hollow. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, 

 rather stout, curved, and slightly inserted in a narrow 

 round cavity. Skin pale green, a good part of which 

 is covered with a deep cinnamon russet, thickly sprinkled 

 with light-coloured russetty specks. Flesh yellowish 

 white, a little gritty, but rich and buttery, and full of a 

 highly sacharine rich-flavoured juice. 



Ripe the end of October, and will keep good a month. 



