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PEARS. 



LOUISON. N. DuH. 



This pear is three inches and a half to four inches in height, 

 and two inches and a half in diameter ; its form is oblong and 

 almost conical, terminated in a rather obtuse point ; the stem 

 is six lines long, and inserted within a shallow cavity ; the eye 

 is small and but slightly depressed ; the skin, which is delicate 

 and smooth, is sometimes washed on the sunny side, and in 

 other cases pretty deeply tinged with red, speckled with brown- 

 ish red dots — -the other side is of a beautiful yellow colour, 

 scattered over with specks of russet ; the flesh is very white, 

 melting, full of very pleasant juice, which is slightly perfumed, 

 but not of a high flavour ; the fruit ripens at the end of Sep- 

 tember or beginning of October, and its colour, the period of 

 its maturity, and the defect of soon becoming soft, are almost 

 the only points which distinguish it from the Louise-bonne. 

 The trees of this kind yield abundantly. The description of 

 this variety was transmitted by M. Le Berry ais to M. Michel, 

 one of the editors of the New Duhamel. 



OCTOBER CRIMSON. Pk. cat. 

 Cramoisi. Duh. 



This pear, which has been lately introduced, is large and of 

 a globular form, but often becomes more or less pyramidal. 

 The skin, which is at first greenish, becomes yellow at the pe- 

 riod of maturity, and the side next the sun attains a beautiful 

 crimson hue ; the flesh is breaking, of a fragrant odour, but 

 without combining a great deal of flavour. Its period of 

 ripening is October ; it is one of those cultivated at the Jardin 

 des Plants at Paris, and has recently been added to the col- 

 lection of the author. 



