POMOLOGICAL MANUAK 



PEARS. 

 J:ARLY sugar.— Pr. cat. 



JoanneU N. Duh. 



Arnir^ Joannet, Roz. O. Duh. 



Joannette. 



Petit Saint- Jean. 



Archduc d'M^, erroneously* 



St, John'' s pear. 



This fruit is regularly pyriform, twenty three lines in height^ 

 and fifteen in diameter. The eye is even with the extremity 

 of the fruit, and that part is of very round form, diminishing 

 gradually in size to the stem, which is fifteen to twenty lines 

 in length. The skin is almost invariably of an uniform 

 colour, at first a clear green, which changes to a lemon colour 

 at maturity ; in some few cases the part exposed to the sun 

 partakes of a slight shade of red- The flesh is white, deli- 

 cate, somewhat juicy when first ripe, not high-flavoured but 

 sugary, and when over-ripe becomes mealy ; the seeds are 

 brown, small, and very pointed. This pear is usually the first 

 ripe, and is always eaten, in France, about the period of St. 

 John's day, whence it has there obtained the title of Joannet. 

 It can be ingrafted on the quince stock, as well as on the pear. 

 It grows quite slow when young, and has not a vigorous ap- 

 pearance, but in time becomes a tree of considerable size. 



