88 PEARS, 



the section of country around Boston very apt to crack in the 

 same manner as the Crasanne, and warns cultivators in the 

 country against planting it unless they have terraces or walls. 



ROUGEAUDE. N. Dun. 



Although this variety is described in the New Duhamel, it 

 is there stated that it would not have been noticed by the edi- 

 tors, if the figure had not been executed before they were fully 

 acquainted with the quality of the fruit. With this remark I 

 should pass it over here, were it not that I wish to fulfil the 

 pledge made in the prospectus, that this work should contain 

 all the descriptions of pears comprised in that publication. 



The form of this pear is a pretty regular pyramid ; it is 

 thirty-two to thirty-six lines in height, and twenty-seven to 

 thirty lines in its greatest diameter ; the stem, which is ten 

 lines to an inch in length, is inserted even with the extremity 

 of the fruit, and the eye is situated in a small cavity with per- 

 fectly regular edges ; the shade side of the skin is yellowish, 

 that next the sun, and indeed three-fourths of the fruit is of a 

 darker or lighter shade of red ; the flesh is firm and dry, with 

 some sweetness, but rather insipid, and possesses but little fla- 

 vour ; the seeds are brown and oblong, and the fruit ripens in 

 January. It was presented to the editors by M. Noisette un- 

 der the title of Beurre efhyver, but proved to be entirely erro- 

 neous, as it possesses none of the qualities of that variety, or 

 of others of its class. 



SUMMER VERMIUON. Auth. 

 Vermilion d'Ete. N. Duh. 



This pear is round or partially pyriform ; the skin on the 

 shade side is greenish yellow, and next to the sun acquires a 

 tint of vermilion; the flesh is half-melting, somewhat per- 

 fumed, but soon becomes mealy and soft. Its period of ripen- 



