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changing as it ripens to lively red. Eye, open, with short, dry, erect 

 segments, and set in a shallow depression. Stalk, an inch long, 

 inserted in a small round cavity. Flesh, white, crisp, juicy, with a 

 fine sugary and perfumed flavour. 



An excellent early dessert pear; ripe the end of August and 

 beginning of September. The tree is a great bearer, healthy and 

 vigorous, and succeeds well as a standard. 



PASSE GOIMAR (Beurre d' Argenson ; Cellite ; Chapman's ; Chap- 

 vian's Passe Colmar ; Colmar Bonnet ; Colmar Bore ; Colmar Epineux ; 

 Colmar Gris ; Colmar d'Hardenpont ; Colmar Preul ; Colmar Souve- 

 raine ; Fondante de Panisel ; Fondante de Mons ; Gambler ; Marotte 

 Sucre ; Passe Colmar Dare ; Passe Colmar Epineux ; Passe Colmar 

 Gris ; Precel ; Present de Malines ; Preul ; Pucelle Condesienne ; 

 Regentine ; Roi de Baviere ; Souverain ; Souverain d'Hiver). — Fruit, 

 medium sized ; obovate or obtuse pyriform. Skin, smooth, lively green 

 at first, but changing to a fine uniform deep lemon-yellow, with a tinge 

 of brownish red next the sun, and strewed with numerous brown dots 

 and a few reticulations of russet. Eye, open, with dry, erect, rigid 

 segments, and set in a wide shallow basin. Stalk, varying from three- 

 quarters to an inch and a half long, set in a small sheath-like cavity. 

 Flesh, yellowish white, fine-grained, very juicy, buttery, and melting, 

 and of a rich, sweet, vinous and aromatic flavour. 



A dessert pear of the best quaUty; ripe during November and 

 December. 



The tree is very vigorous, healthy, and hardy, and an excellent 

 bearer as a standard. It forms a handsome pyramid, and requires to 

 be grown in a rich, warm soil, otherwise the flesh is crisp and gritty. 

 In exposed situations it requires a wall. 



This is of Belgian origin, and supposed to have been raised by M. Hardenpont. 

 of Mons, in Hainault, in 1758, and has for many years been cultivated in Belgium, 

 under the various names given as synouymes. It was first received in this country 

 by R Wilbraham, Esq., of Twickenham, and by him given to a person named 

 Chapman, a market gardener at Brentford End, Isleworth, who cultivated it ex- 

 tensively, and attached his own name to it. The fruit was sold for 5s. each, and 

 the trees at 21s. 



Passe Colmar Dore. See Passe Colmar. 



Passe Colmar Epineux. See Passe Colmar. 



Passe Colmar Gris. See Passe Colmar. 



PASSE COLMAR MUSQUE.—Frait, medium sized, two inches and 

 three-quarters long and two inches and a half wide ; obovate, even and 

 regular in its outline. Skin, yellow, much covered with mottles and 

 patches of pale cinnamon russet, with a patch round the stalk. Eye, 

 open, with very short segments, set in a wide and shallow basin. 

 Stalk, fi:om half an inch to three-quarters long, obUquely inserted in a 

 small cavity. Flesh, yellow, melting, juicy, sweet, and very richly 

 flavoured, with a fine perfume. 



A fruit of great excellence ; ripe in the end of October and beginning 



