PEARS. 



mitted to the London Horticultural Society by M. Thouin, of 

 Paris, under the title of De Huchet, which it appears by their 

 statement does not properly belong to it. The following re- 

 marks I copy from the same work. 



" It is clear that this pear is unlike any kind cultivated in 

 this country, (England) ; about the period when it ripens we 

 have none that are half as good. It is a most excellent variety 

 of its season, and well worth growing. It ripens in the end 

 of August and beginning of September, and bears most abun- 

 dantly as an open standard. 



" Wood strong, yellowish green on the shade side, chesnut 

 coloured next the sun, sprinkled with whitish spots; leaves 

 moderately large, broadly ovate, tapering to the point, with 

 sharp serratures, scarcely downy on either side ; petioles about 

 an inch long, stipules long and clear ; flowers very large, with 

 roundish petals ; fruit middle-sized, roundish, flattened, de- 

 pressed at the eye, towards which end of the fruit it is slightly 

 angular ; stalk about an inch and a quarter long, moderately 

 thick, inserted in a shallow cavity ; skin green, with a tinge of 

 yellow when fit for use, with a few faint streaks of brownish 

 red on the sunny side ; flesh yellowish white, very juicy, a little 

 €risp and gritty, but very rich and sugary. 



FRENCH A.UTUMN BERGAMOT. Pr. cat. 



BersamottP d^automne. Roz. Duh. 

 Autumn Bergamot. 



This pear is of a very depressed turbinate form, being 

 thirty-three to thirty-six lines in diameter, and twenty-seven to 

 twenty-nine lines in height — in some cases however, it ap- 

 proaches a pyramidal shape, its diameter being then about the 

 same as its height ; the stem is short, being but six hues in 

 length, inserted in a slight cavity ; the eye is exactly even with 

 the extremity of the fruit ; the skin is smooth, light green, ac- 

 quiring a little yellow at perfect maturity, and assuming some- 

 times next the sun a slight tint of brownish red — it is besides 



