582 THE PEAR. 
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Passz Cotmar. Lind. Thomp. P. Mag. 
Ananas d’Hiver. Colmar Hardenpont, 
Passe Colmar Epineaux. | Présent de Malines. 
Colmar Gris. Marotte Sucrée Jaune. 
Passe Colmar Gris. Souveraine d’Hiver. 
Bourré Colmar Gris, dit précel. | ac. io Colmar Souveraine. 
Précel. " f Thomp. Gambier. 
Fondante de Panisel. Cellite. 
Fondante de Mons. P Colmar Preule. 
Beurré d’Argenson. Colmar Dorée. 
Regintin. D’Ananas, (of some.) 
Pucelle Condésienne.. 
The Passe Colmar is a Belgian pear, raised by the Counsel-or 
Hardenpont. Vigorous growth, and abundant bearer. It grows 
indeed almost too thrifty, making long, bending shoots, and 
owing to this over-luxuriance, the fruit is often second rate on 
young trees, but on old trees, with high cultivation, it is some- 
times of the best quality. It is a very variable fruit, and often 
poor. The young shoots are of a lively brownish-yellow. 
Fruit rather large, varying considerably from obovate to ob- 
tuse-pyriform. Skin rather thick, yellowish-green, becoming 
yellow at maturity, a good deal sprinkled with light-brown rus- 
set. Stalk an inch and a half long, inserted in an obtuse, une- 
ven cavity, or sometimes without depression. Calyx open, basin 
shallow. Flesh yellowish-white, buttery and juicy, with a rich, 
sweet, aromatic flavour. 
Passans pu Portuaeat. Thomp. 
Summer Portugal. Miller's Early. 
A delicate and pleasant pear, which comes early into bear- 
ing, and produces very large crops. Shoots upright, reddish- 
TOWN, 
Fruit small, roundish, and much flattened. Skin pale yel- 
low, with a cheek of fairest brown, becoming red in the sun. 
Stalk nearly an inch long, inserted in a round, regular hollow. 
Calyx stiff, basin moderately sunk. Flesh white, juicy, break- 
ing, of very delicate, agreeable flavour. Last of August. 
Pater Noster. 
Fruit large, oblong. Skin yellow-russet. Stalk medium m 
length, wrinkled, enlarged at its insertion, which is at an incli- 
nation in a small irregular cavity. Calyx open, segments stiff, 
ma small even basin. Flesh yellowish, juicy and melting, with 
x rather rich, vinous, or subacid flavour, pleasantly perfumed, 
November, December. 4° 
