PEARS. 371 



slightly speckled with brown. Flesh white, with a slight 

 musky flavour, and very little core. 



Ripe early in October, and will keep a few weeks. 



A fine buttery Pear of the first order, and very hand- 

 some. It was received by the Horticultural Society 

 from Dr. Van Mons, of Brussels, in 1817- 



78. DOYENNE PANACHE. Hart. Trans. Vol. vii. 



p. 177- 



Fruit in form the same as the Grey Doyenne, but 

 tapers a little more towards the stalk. Skin a bright 

 clear yellow, faintly striped with green and red, and 

 sprinkled all over with small russetty brown dots. 

 Flesh white, melting, sweet, and very agreeable ; but it 

 is not so high-flavoured as the Grey Doyenne. 



In eating from October till Christmas. 



79. DOYENNE SANTELETE. Hart. Soc. Cat. No. 241. 

 Fruit above the middle size, pyramidally oblong, 



not much unlike a Chaumantelle in shape, but narrow at 

 the crown, and more compressed towards the stalk, 

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

 half in diameter. Eye small, open, with a very shut 

 strigose calyx, slightly sunk in a narrow obtusely angular 

 hollow. Stalk an inch long or more, curved, very 

 slightly inserted, sometimes a little obliquely, in a nar- 

 row base. Skin pale green, thinly covered with de- 

 tached specks of grey russet, which are more numerous 

 round the stalk. Flesh white, a little gritty, but tender. 

 Juice saccharine, with a slight musky perfume. 



Ripe the beginning of October, and will keep till 

 the end. 



This is a very fine handsome Pear from Flanders, 

 grown in the Horticultural Society's garden at Chiswick, 

 upon an open standard. 



80. DUCHESS OF ANGOULEME. Pom. Mag. t. 76. 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme. Hart. Trans. Vol. vii. 



p. 176. t. 3. Bon Jard. 1829, p. 328. 



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