THE PEAR. 537 
Pounp. Coxe. 
Uvedales St. Germain. Du Tonneau. 
Winter Bell. Royal d’Angleterre. 
Bretagne le Cour. Comice de Toulon. 
Belle Angevine. Beauté de Tervenren. 
Belle de Jersey. Pickering Pear. 
Lent St. Germain. 
The Pound, or Winter Bell pear, valued only for cooking, is 
e of the most common fruits in the Middle States. Indeed, 
is and the Black Pear of Worcester, so common in New Eng- 
id, are the only two kitchen pears extensively grown in this 
untry. The pound pear is the larger of the two, often weigh- 
x a couple of pounds each. It is also an abundant bearer, 
da profitable orchard crop. The trees are strong and healthy, 
th very stout, upright, dark-coloured wood. 
Fruit large, pyriform, swollen at the crown, and narrowing 
adually to a point at the insertion of. the stalk. Skin yellow- 
i-green, with a brown cheek, (yellow and red when long kept,) 
d sprinkled with numerous brown russet dots. Stalk two 
shes or more long, stout, bent. Calyx crumpled, set in a nar- 
w, slight basin. Flesh firm and solid, stews red, and is excel. 
it, baked or preserved. 
Pratt. Hort. 
A native of Rhode Island. Tree a vigorous upright grower, 
ry productiye. - ; 
Fruit. above medium, obtuse-pyriform. Skin greenish-yellow 
aded with crimson, and sprinkled with numerous russet and 
2y dots, frequently patched and netted with russet. Stalk 
ig, slender, curved, inserted in a regular cavity. Calyx open, 
: in a broad shallow basin. Flesh white, juicy, melting, briskly 
10us, and saccharine, variable, but when in perfection of great 
cellence. Ripens last of September. — 
Prevost. Bivort. 
Poire Prevost. 
Fruit of medium size. Skin thin, smooth, light green, passing 
golden-yellow at maturity, deeply shaded with carmine in the 
a. Flesh white, half melting, half buttery, sweet, and 
ongly perfumed. Ripens in December, but may be kept 
til April. (Al. Pom.) 
Privce Atsert. Bivort., Van Mons. 
Tree vigorous, succeeds on pear and quince. Fruit medium, 
riform. Skin very thick and smooth. Colour. yellowish, 
netimes with a slightly sunny cheek. Stalk an inch long, 
e small, open; in a shallow even cavity. Flesh yellowish- 
ite, fine, melting, sugary and rich, February, March. (Gard. Ch.) 
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