PEAKS. 425 



COLUMBIA. — ^Fruit, large, three inches and a half long, and three 

 inches wide ; oblong obovate. Skin, smooth, of a fine golden yellow, 

 dotted with large russet dots, which are interspersed with smaller ones. 

 Eye, large and open, with erect segments, and sunk in a narrow depres- 

 sion. Stalk, an inch long, thick, and fleshy, curred, and set on the 

 apex of the fruit. Flesh, buttery and melting, sweet and perfumed, 

 but without any remarkable flavour. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in October and November. 



An American variety, raised in West Chester, Co. New York. 



Cornice. See Doyenne du Cornice, 



Cornice de Toulon. See Vicar of Winkfield. 



Common Bergamot. See Autumn Bergamot. 



COMPEEETTE {Colmar Musque). — Fruit, below medium size, two 

 inches and three-quarters long, and two inches and a quarter wide ; 

 obovate. Skin, smooth, greenish yellow, but becoming lemon-yellow, 

 strewed with patches and dots of russet. Eye, quite small, with narrow 

 segments, half open, and set in a narrow depression. Stalk, stout, 

 three-quarters of an inch long, inserted on the apex of the fruit. Flesh, 

 buttery, melting, juicy, and sweet, with a musky flavour. 



A good pear, but not of high merit ; ripe in the end of October. 



I cannot trace the origin of this pear. It is in Van Mens' catalogue, 3rd Series, 

 under No. 281, without any remark. 



COMTESSE D'ALOST. — Large, three inches and three-quarters 

 long, and two inches and three-quarters wide ; pyriform, very much 

 the shape of Marie Louise. Skin, pale yellow, with a greenish tinge, 

 covered all over with large russety freckles, and with a coating of russet 

 round the eye. Eye, very smaU and open, set in a flat and slight 

 depression. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, stout, and woody; 

 inserted on the apex of the fruit. Flesh, yellowish, coarse-grained, 

 and rather gritty, melting, juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured. 



A good pear ; ripe in November and December, but soon rots at 

 the core. 



I receiyed this from M. Papeleu, of Wetteren, near Ghent, in 1847. 



COMTE D'EGMONT. — Fruit, small ; obovate or turbinate, even in 

 its outline. Skin, lemon-yellow, and entirely covered with dots of a 

 fine reddish brown russet, which in some parts are so dense as to form 

 an irregular patch, particularly round the eye. Eye, small and open, 

 with short erect segments, and placed in a shallow depression. Stalk, 

 woody and stout, inserted without depression. Flesh, yellow, melting, 

 somewhat gritty, very rich, sugary, and delicious. 



A first-rate little pear ; ripe in the end of October and beginning of 

 November. 



COMTE DE FLANDRE {St. Jean Baptiste). — Fruit, very large ; 

 pyriform. Skin, almost entirely covered with large freckles of cinnamon- 



