CATALOGUE OF FRUITS. 21 
Bonne du Puits Ansault (Leroy ’65)—Medium size; melting, juicy, and very 
fine grained; one of the finest in quality of all pears, superior to Seckel. Tree 
a poor grower, which necessitates top grafting in order to obtain good standard 
trees. Bears when quite young. Price $1.50 each. September. 


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BONNE DU PUITS ANSAULT. 
Duhamel du Monceau (Andre Leroy ’65)—Large, long pyriform, skin rather 
rough, nearly covered with brownish russet, flesh melting, juicy, with the flavor 
of Winter Nelis; a delicious pear. Tree a moderate grower. November, De- 
cember. 
Eugene Appert (Andre Leroy ’65)—Medium size; flesh melting, sweet, perfumed; 
a delicious pear, flavor of Gansel’s Bergamot. A moderate grower as a stand- 
ard. Does not succeed so well on the quince. October. 
Frederick Clapp—We are indebted to the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder for the fol- 
lowing description: ‘‘ Form generally obovate, but somewhat variable; size 
above medium; skin thin, smooth and fair, clear lemon yellow; flesh fine 
grained, very juicy and melting, flavor sprightly, acidulous, rich and aromatic; 
season October 15th to November ist, remaining sound at core to the last; 
quality very good to best, and will be highly esteemed by those who like acidulous 
pears. It has been exhibited for many years by the originators, Messrs. F. & L. 
Clapp, of Dorchester, Mass. Of this pear the committee of the Massachusetts Hor- 
ticultural Society have reported favorably for years. Of its quality they state in 
1873, ‘It. was pronounced decidedly superior to Beurre Superfin, and is re- 
garded by all who have seen it as the highest bred and most refined of all the 
many seedlings shown by Messrs. Clapp.’ It is probably a cross between 
Beurre Superfin and Urbaniste, the tree resembling in habit the latter variety, 
and may safely be commended as worthy of trial by all cultivators of the pear.” 
Tree a vigorous or free grower and somewhat spiny. (See cut.) 
Hoosic—This fine pear is a seedling of Hacon’s Incomparable, and was raised by 
the Hon. A. Foote of Williamstown, Mass. It was first sent to us as ‘‘ Hacon’s 
No. 3,” and subsequently named Hoosic. Fruit large, obovate, having consid- 
erable exterior resemblance to Beurre Diel; stalk 14 incbes long, moderately 
stout and set obliquely in a slight depression. Calyx large, open, in a shallow 
