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the side of a fleshy lip. Flesh, tender, buttery, and melting, sugary, 

 and richly flavoured. 



An excellent pear ; ripe in November. 



This was discovered as a wilding by M. Legipont growing on his property at 

 Chameu, a village between Verviers and Aix la Chapelle, in the province of Li^ge, 

 Belginm, in the beginning of the present century. 



FONDANTE DU COMICE.— Fruit, above medium size, even and 

 regular in its outline. Skin, of an uniform shade of yellowish or pea- 

 green, dotted with distinct russet dots, and covered with patches of 

 grey russet ; sometimes it has a faint tinge of red on one side. Eye, 

 open, small, with erect acute segments, set in a very deep and smooth 

 round basin. Stalk, straight, stout, and woody, also green like the 

 skin, from half an inch to an inch long, and inserted obliquely, with a 

 fleshy Up on one side of it. Flesh, crisp, and very juicy, sugary, and 

 rich, and with that cold acidulous juice which is met with in St. Ger- 

 main and Beurre d'Aremberg. 



An excellent pear ; ripe in the beginning of November. 



FONDANTE DE CUEKNE.— Fruit, medium sized; obovate. Skin, 

 pale yellow, having the appearance of being blanched, like White 

 Doyenne, smooth, and strewed with very minute brown dots, so small 

 as to be hardly visible, and with sometimes a patch of cinnamon- 

 coloured russet on some part of its surface. Eye, small and open, 

 slightly depressed. Stalk, about three-quarters of an inch long, very 

 stout and fleshy, and inserted in a shallow depression. Flesh, per- 

 fectly white, half melting, juicy, and sweet, with very pleasant flavour 

 and aroma. 



A superior pear, both in size and quality, to Buerre Gifi'ard, which 

 ripens at the same season, about the third week in August. 



Fondante de Jaffard. See Colmar d'Aremberg. 



FONDANTE DE MALINES.— Fruit, large, even, and handsomely 

 shaped; obtusely obovate, blunt at the stalk. Skin, smooth, of a 

 uniform deep golden yellow colour, mottled all over with cinnamon- 

 coloured russet ; on the side next the sun it is of a deeper yeUow, and 

 spotted with crimson dots. Eye, clove-like, set in a pretty deep de- 

 pression. Stalk, about an inch long, fleshy at the base, and inserted 

 in a narrow round cavity. Flesh, white, buttery, and melting, juicy, 

 Bweet, and with a fine perfume. 



A good dessert pear ; ripe in November and continuing till December. 

 It rots at the core, and decays treacherously. 



Raised by Major Esperen, at Malines, in 1842. 



Fondante de Mons. See Passe Colmar. 

 Fondante Musqu^e. See Simmer Thorn. 



FONDANTE DE NEES.-Fruit, large ; long obovate. Skin, of a 

 fine deep yellow colour, mottled and dotted all over with pale brown 



