PEARS. 515 



tie axis. Flesh, tender, buttery, and melting, rioh, and witli a pleasant, 

 sprightly, vinous flavour, and a fine aroma. 



An excellent early pear ; ripe in the end of October, but keeps a 

 very short time. It ought to be gathered before it is ripe. 

 , This was raised by M. Andr6 Leroy, of Angers, and named after his grand* 

 daughter, eldest child of M. Eugene Appert. 



Thiessoise. See Beurre d'Amanlis. 



THOMPSON'S {Vlesembeek).—Fimi, medium sized ; obovate. Skin, 

 pale yellow, and considerably covered with a coating and dots of pale 

 cinnamon-coloured russet. Eye, open, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, 

 an inch and a quarter long, inserted in an uneven cavity. Flesh, white, 

 buttery, and melting, very juicy, exceedingly rich and sugary, and with 

 a fine aroma. 



One of our best pears ; ripe in November. The tree is quite hardy, 

 an excellent bearer, and succeeds best on the pear stock. 



This was raised by Van Mons, and was received from him by the Horticultural 

 Society without a name, and Mr. Sabine named it in honour of Mr. Eobert 

 Thompson, Superintendent of the Fruit Department in the Society's garden. 



TILliINGTON. — Fruit, about medium size ; short pyriform, rather 

 uneven in its outline. Skin, smooth, greenish yellow, covered with a 

 number of light-brown russet dots. Eye, open, scarcely at all de- 

 pressed. Stalk, short, fleshy, and warted at its insertion. Flesh, 

 yellowish, tender, buttery and melting, not very juicy, but brisk and 

 vinous, with a peculiar and fine aroma. 



This is an excellent pear, ripe iu October, the fine sprightly flavour 

 of which contrasts favourably with the luscious sweetness of the 

 Seokle, which comes in just before it. 



Tombe de 1' Amateur. See Nouveau Poiteau. 



De Tongres. See Durondeau. 



TONNEAU {Belle de Fouquet ; De Bochefort). — Fruit, very large ; 

 oblong obovate, uneven in its outline. Skin, clear yellow, highly 

 coloured with red on the side next the sun, and strewed with small 

 brown points, and some russet spots. Eye, large and open, set in a 

 deep, wide, undulating basin. Stalk, an inch long, straight, woody, 

 and inserted in a deep, irregular cavity. Flesh, very white, rather dry, 

 with a sweet and brisk flavour. 



A handsome ornamental pear, only fit for decoration; it blets at 

 the core in November. 



This is a perfectly distinct pear from TJvedale's St. Germain, with which M. 

 Leroy has made it synonymous. ^ 



Tres Grosse de Bruxelles. See Uvedale's St. Germain. 



TEESOE {D' Amour ; Tresor d' Amour). — ^Fruit, of immense size, 

 measuring sometimes five and a half inches long and four inches 

 broad ; oblong, very uneven and bossed in its outline. Skin, at fij-st 



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