THE PEAR. " 433 
are pale yellow, upright and slender. The oginal tree, about 
thirty-five years old, stands in the garden of Madam Dix, Bos- 
ton. . It bore for the first time in 1826. : 
Fruit large, oblong, or long pyriform. Skin roughish, fine 
deep yellow at maturity, marked with distinct russet dots, and 
sprinkled with russet around the stalk. Calyx small, for so 
large a fruit, basin narrow, and scarcely at all sunk. Stalk 
rather stout, short, thicker at each end, set rather obliquely, but 
with little or no depression. Flesh not very fine grained, but - 
piers rich, sugary, melting, and delicious, with a slight per- 
e. October and November. 
Doyenne Bovssocx. 
Doyenne Boussouck nouvelle. © Beurre de Merode. 
Double Philippe. _ 
Tree vigorous, an early and productive bearer. Fruit: vary- 
ing in form, obovate, inclining to conic, large specimens oblate. 
Skin rough, deep yelléw, netted and clouded with russet, with a 
