PEAKS. 



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beautiful pale lemon-yellow, with a faint trace of brownish red next the 

 Bun, and strewed with numerous small grey dots and slight markings of 

 delicate russet. Eye, small and open, with long stout segments, and 

 set in a small shallow basin, sometimes without any depression. Stalk, 

 an inch to an inch and a quarter long, fleshy at the base and attached 

 without depression. Flesh, yellowish white, delicate, buttery, melting, 

 and very juicy, with a sugary and perfumed flavour. 



An excellent old French dessert pear; in use from November to 

 January. 



The tree is a strong and very vigorous grower, but is long before it 

 comes into bearing, and has the character of being an indifferent 

 bearer. The fruit is very apt to drop before it is thoroughly ripe, 

 and shrivels very much in keeping. It is exceedingly susceptible of 

 contracting the flavour of any substances it comes in contact with, such 

 as hay, straw, or deal boards, upon which fruits are generally placed, 

 or decayed fruit lying near it, and advantage may be taken of this pro- 

 perty by laying it on substances impregnated with perfumes the flavour 

 of which it is desirable to communicate, such as elder flowers, musk, or 

 rose leaves. 



This variety originated at the village of Virgouleuse, near Limoges, in the 

 department of Creuse, of which the Marquis Chambrette was the baron, and by 

 whom it was first introduced to Paris about the middle of the 17th century. 



Vlesembeek. See Thompson's, 

 Wahre Englesbirne, See Ange. 

 Warwick Bergamot. See White Doyenne, 



WATERLOO. — Fruit, medium sized ; turbinate, broad at the apex. 

 Skin, pale green in the shade, brownish red, with a few streaks of 

 brighter red next the sun, thickly covered with grey russety dots. Eye, 

 open, with short erect segments, and set in a deep, wide, and even 

 basin. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, inserted in a small round 

 cavity. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, juicy, sugary, and perfumed. 



A dessert pear of second-rate quahty ; ripe in September, bears well 

 as a standard. 



WELBECK BERGAMOT (Hepworthy—Fmit, above medium size ; 

 roundish, uneven in its outline, and bossed about the stalk. Skin, 

 smooth and shining, of a lemon-yellow colour, thickly sprinkled with 

 large russet specks, and with a blush of Ught crimson on the side next 

 the sun. Eye, small and open, set in a shallow depression. Stalk, 

 three-quarters of an inch long, inserted in an uneven cavity. Flesh, 

 white, rather coarse-grained, half-melting, very juicy, and sugary, but 

 witmut any flavour. 



An'lnferior pear ; ripe in the end of October and November. 



White Autumn Beurre. See White Doyenne, 

 White Beurre. See White Doyenne. 



