PEARS. 379 



Ripe the end of October, and will keep two or three 

 weeks. 



This succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



93. MESSIRE JEAN. Miller, No. 37. 

 Messire Jean. Duhamel, 55. t. 26. 

 Messire Jean dore. Ib. 



Chaulis. Jard. Fruit, t. 34. 



Fruit middle-sized, flatly turbinate, but somewhat 

 narrowed at each extremity, about two inches and a half 

 deep, and two inches and three quarters in diameter. 

 Eye small, open, with an erect calyx, placed in a shal- 

 low plaited basin. Stalk an inch long, benj, inserted in 

 a somewhat funnel-shaped cavity. Skin rather rough, 

 yellow, covered almost wholly with a fine, thin, brown 

 russet. Flesh white, crisp, breaking, and full of a rich 

 saccharine juice. 



Ripe the beginning of October, and will keep a month. 



This succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



The Messire Jean is a very excellent autumn Pear, 

 and deserves to be generally cultivated. There have 

 been other names given to it, such as Gfrey, Yellow, and 

 Wliite; they are all the same sort, and these colours 

 arise, as was said of the Brown Beurre, from the dif- 

 ferent soils, situations, and stocks on which they are 

 grafted, and also from the different ages of the trees 

 themselves. 



94. NAPOLEON. Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 104. and 

 Vol. iv. p. 215. Pom. Mag. t. 75. 



Medaille. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 401. according to the 

 Pom. Mag. 



Fruit large, the form of a Colmar, angular about the 

 eye, a good deal contracted in the middle, about three 

 inches and three quarters long, and three inches in 

 diameter. Eye small, with a connivent calyx, a little 

 depressed. Stalk half an inch long, thick, straight ; in 

 some specimens diagonally inserted under a large, elong- 



