THE PEAR. 489 
; . «Deux Sarre, Esperen. . 
A fine tree, very productive. Fruit large, elongated, pyris 
form. Skin green, spotted with dark brown. Flesh-fine yel- 
‘owish green, buttery, juicy, very sugary, with a decided flavour 
of almonds. November. (Al. Pom.) : 
> 
_ Dunpas. Van Mons, Man. in Hoy. Mag. 
Pt Elliott Dundas. Bouvier. 
Rousselet Jamin. Bouvier. 
-A Belgian vari- 
ety, sent to this 
‘country by Van 
Mons, in 1834, 
Fruit medium size, 
obovate, inclining 
to turbinate. Skin 
clear yellow, sprin- 
kled with green- 
ish black dots, and 
heightened by a 
very brilliant red 
cheek. Stalk dark 
brown, an inch long, 
stout, inserted with- 
out depression. Ca- 
lyx small, placed at 
the bottom of a 
deep round basin. 
Flesh _—_yellowish- 
white, half buttery, 
melting, with a 
rich perfumed juice. 
First of October, 
and keeps some 
ime. 
Dicxermay.  ”- 
Pardee’s No. 2. 
ased by 8. D. Pardee, New Haven, Conn., from lima we 
gonived specimens. Tree vigorous and productive, young wood 
maroon, }- ; Ve 
Fiuit Gaedium, roundish, oblate. Skin yellowish, thickly 
covered with minute dots. Stalk curved, fleshy at its insertion, 
in amoderate cavity. Calyx nearly closed, segments persistent, 
ae 21 . 
