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concave curve, which gives it the appearance of a snout. Skin, smooth, 

 greenish yellow, entirely covered with large mottles of grey russet. 

 .Eye, small and open, set on one side of the axis, and generally on the 

 side opposite to that on which the stalk is inclined. Stalk, three- 

 quarters of an inch long, stout, and inserted in a small round cavity. 

 Flesh, yellowish, tender, buttery, melting, and juicy, sweet, and with a 

 brisk flavour, and a fine rose-water perfume. 



A good, but not a first-rate pear, which rots at the core in the end of 

 October. 



This is perfectly distinct from TJrbaiiiBte, with which a pear, cultivated on 

 the Continent under the name of Louise d'Orleans, is made synonymous. The 

 variety here described I received from M. Papeleu, of Wetteren,"in 1847. 



LOUISif DE PKUSSE.— Fruit, large, long obovate. Skin, of an 

 uniform straw yellow, with a few traces of cinnamon russet and russet 

 dots. Eye, open. Stalk, short, obliquely inserted by the side of a 

 fleshy Up. Flesh, tender, melting, juicy, and sweet. 



A second-rate pear, which rots at the core in October. 



Lucrate. See Fondante d'Automne. 



LUCY GEIEVE. — ^Fruit, large, three inches long and two and a 

 half wide ; oval, rather uneven in outline, bossed round the waist and 

 about the eye, and its shape is a combination of Glou Mor9eau and 

 Swan's Egg, the appearance about the crown being particularly like the 

 former. Skin, lemon -yeUow, with occasionally a brownish red blush on 

 the side next the sun ; and the whole surface is sprinkled with cinnamon- 

 coloured russet dots, which in some parts, and particularly round the 

 stalk, are so thick as to become patches of russet. Eye, rather open, 

 with long narrow segments set in an uneven depression. Stalk, an inch 

 long, woody, set even with the surface. Flesh, white, very tender and 

 melting, very juicy and richly flavoured. 



This is a delicious pear, and has the texture of flesh of Marie 

 Louise ; it is ripe during October. 



The seed was sown in a flower-pot by a little girl, the daughter of Mr. Peter 

 Grieve, gardener at Culford Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds, merely for her childish 

 amusement. She carefully tended the plants till they were large enough to be 

 planted in the open ground ; but ere the first of them bore fruit in 1873, the little 

 maid was in her grave. Her father sent me the first fruit the tree produced, and I 

 named it Lucy GrTeve, as a memorial of the raiser. 



Maatjes Peer. See Berganwtte d'Automne. 



Mabille. See Napoleon. 



Madame. See Windsor. 



MADAME ANDRE LEROY.— Fruit, very large, four inches long 

 and three inches wide ; oblong obovate, or pyyiform. Skin, of greenish 

 yellow colour, entirely covered with spots of grey russet. Eye, large 

 and open, set in a deep uneven basin. Stalk, an inch long, stout, 

 obliquely inserted, with a fleshy base on the extreipity of the fruit. 



