PEARS. 



CALEBASH. Pr. cat. 



Calebasse. N. Duh. 



The form of this pear has caused it to receive the title it 

 bears ; its height is three inches and a half, and its greatest 

 breadth twenty-four to twenty-five lines ; the eye is even witli 

 the fruit and indeed slightly projecting, surrounded with small 

 swellings which extend a short distance over the fruit, thereby 

 rendering its surface irregular and not perfectly round ; the 

 stem is of a dark red colour and twenty lines in length ; the 

 skin is yellow, dotted over with numerous russet specks, col- 

 lected together in large groups in different parts of the fruit ; 

 the flesh is white, half-breaking, sweet, and of very agreeable 

 perfumed flavour. The seeds are brown and well matured, 

 but small in proportion to the size of the fruit, which becomes 

 ripe at the end of September. There is also a Calebasse Bosc 

 originated by Van Mons. 



JALOUSIE. Pr. cat. Roz. Duh. 

 Jealousy. 



This fruit is of turbinate form, being swollen next the eye 

 and diminishing towards the stem ; its height is two inches 

 and a half to three inches, and its diameter thirty-two to thir- 

 ty-four lines, with a stem fifteen to eighteen lines in length, 

 which is yellowish and commonly somewhat swollen at the part 

 where it connects with the fruit. The skin is fawn colour, 

 but not of a dark shade, and is scattered entirely over with 

 specks of a still lighter hue ; the flesh is white, melting, sweet, 

 perfumed, and very pleasant ; the seeds are brown and rather 

 oblong, and the fruit matures at the end of September or in the 

 course of the month of October. The tree can only be in- 

 grafted on the pear stock ; upon the quince it languishes and 

 perishes in a few years. 



