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Doyemie Santellette. Color, dull yellow, gray russet dots ; 

 form, roundish, pyriform ; size, 1 ; texture, white, melting, 

 vinous, juicy ; quality, 1 ; season, September. 



Eemarks. — Foreign. An old variety. Little known. 

 Tree vigorous. 



DOYENNE GOUBALT. Color, dull, pale yellow; 

 form, obovato, acute pyriform ; size, 2 to 1 ; use, table ; 

 texture, good; quality, 2 ; season, November to January. 



Eemakks. — Foi-eign. A delicate sicklj' tree. 



Doyenne Defaix. Color, yellow ; form, roundish ; size, 

 2; use, table; texture, juicy, rich; qualitj', 2; season, 

 September and October. 



Eemarks. — Tree robust and productive. Described by 

 Thorpe, Smith & Co., Syracuse, N. T. 



DUCHESSB D'ANGOULEME. Color, dull green and 

 yellow ; form, oblate, ovate, pyriform ; size, 1 (often mon- 

 strous) ; use, table; texture, buttery, juicy; quality, 1; 

 season, September and October. 



Eemarks. — Magnificent. Sold for eight dollars per 

 bushel, by Professor Mapes and others, in New York City. 

 Sometimes sold for seventy-five cents each in Philadel- 

 phia.' Blooms too soon. Does not set well with us — 

 often very badly. Dr. Warder complains that he knows 

 that six pears only set on fifty trees, three years planted, 

 after having been white with blossoms, on quince stocks, 

 on which it grows best. Valuable for market when it 

 succeeds; some-years frost, or some other cause, affects, 

 or may affect, its bearing. High culture very desirable 

 for it. Does well on the quince, when it has a soil and 

 climate to suit it. The Duchcsso d'Angouleme should be 

 cultivated only on the quince. It is rather a shv beai-cr 



