PEARS. 865 



is larger and later than the preceding. The fruit is pyriform, two 

 and a half to three inches long. Skin, pale yeUow, covered with 

 small red dots on the side next the sun, and the whole surface thickly 

 sprinkled with cinnamon-coloured russet. Eye, open, and placed level 

 with the surface. Stalk, an inch to an inch and a half long, inserted on 

 the end of the fruit. Flesh, white, buttery, and melting, juicy, sweet, 

 and pleasantly flavoured. 



A good second-rate pear ; ripe in the end of September and October. 



Angoise. See Winter Bon Chretien. 

 Angora. See Uvedale's St. Germain. 

 Anjou Bagpipe. See Large Blanquet. 



AEBRE COURBE. — Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide and 

 four long ; obovate, narrowing towards the stalk and the crown. Skin, 

 rough to the feel, from being considerably covered with rough scaly 

 russet,^ on a bright green ground. Eye, small and open, with flat 

 spreading segments, and placed in a wide and rather shallow cavity. 

 Stalk, stout, three-quarters of an inch to an inch long, not depressed, 

 but placed on the end of the fruit, sometimes with a protuberance on 

 one side of it. Flesh, greenish immediately under the skin, fine- 

 grained, half buttery, melting, and juicy ; briskly flavoured, but with- 

 out much aroma. 



A good dessert pear, but hardly of first-rate quality. It is ripe in 

 the end of September, and continues during October. The tree does 

 not attain a large size, but is very productive, and succeeds well as a 

 standard. 



It is said to hare been raised by Professor Van Mods about 1830, and to have 

 received its name from the circumstance of the stem inclining to grow in a hori- 

 zontal manner, and requiring the aid of a stake to keep it upright ; but according 

 to M. Lesueur's statement, which we extract from M. Decaisne's Jardin Fruitier 

 du Mus4um, it is not a seedling of Van Mons, but was raised bj M. Leon Leclerc, 

 and propagated by Van Mons in 1833. 



Arbre Superbe. See Fondante d'Automne. 



Archduke Charles. See Charles d'Autriche, 



Archduke d'Ete. See Summer Archduke. 



ARCHIDUCHESSE D'AUTRICHE {Erzherzoffin).—Fmit, below 

 medium size, two inches and a quarter wide, and two high ; bergamot- 

 shaped, or rather roundish turbinate. Skin, green at first, but be- 

 coming yellowish green as it ripens ; brownish red next the sun, 

 marked with a few thin streaks of deeper and brighter red, and on the 

 shaded side marked with large dots and freckles of cinnamon-coloured 

 russet. Eye, open, set in a wide shallow basin. Stalk, an inch and a 

 quarter long, straight, woody, and inserted in a small round cavity. 

 Flesh, white, half melting, slightly gritty at the core, juicy, sweet, and 

 with a rather rich flavour. 



A second-rate dessert pear ; ripe in the middle of September. The tree 

 is a strong grower and a good bearer. It was raised by Van Mons. 



