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LONG STALKED BLANQUET. Pr. cat. For. Pom. mag. 



Blanquette d longue queue. N. Duh. 



Blanquet d longue queue. Roz. O.Duh. Mil. 



Long taiVd Blanquet. Evel. 



Long stalk Blanquet. } 



Long stalked Blanket. \ ' 



Skinless, of the Bostonians ? 



This pear is small, being tWenty-one lines in height and 

 nineteen in diameter, terminated by an acute point at the stem, 

 but handsomely rounded next the eye, which is even with the 

 fruit ; the skin is smooth, of a whitish green hue, and very 

 rarely coloured with a partial tint of red next the sun ; the 

 flesh is half-breaking, white, rather delicate, with abundance 

 of sweet juice, perfumed and slightly vinous, which render it 

 very agreeable. The seeds are light brown, and the fruit 

 ripens at the commencement of August. 



I copy the following additional remarks, in regard to this 

 pear, from the Pomological Magazine : 



" The tree is a great bearer, and the fruit does not rot so 

 quickly as most pears of the same season ; it is one of the 

 first that ripens, being in perfection (in England) from the 

 20th to the 30th of July. Compared with others of the same 

 season, it has high merit. The wood is strong, reddish brown, 

 a little silvery on the lower ends, buds middle-sized lying close 

 to the wood ; leaves small on very long stalks, finely toothed ; 

 flowers broad with flat roundish petals, sometimes rather pink; 

 fruit growing in clusters, f? B» d bouquetj Auth.) inversely 

 egg-shaped; skin deep clear green, in France acquiring a 

 pearly lustre which it never has here." 



This last description applies in several respects very closely to 

 the Cluster Blanquet, or Blanquet dlBouquet which is an ear- 

 lier and distinct variety. In Fessenden's American Gardener 

 it is stated that this fruit is known about Boston by the name 

 of Skinless pear, which is in fact a very diflerent fruit, as will 

 be seen by referring to Duhamel and other authors of cele- 

 brity. 



