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PEARS r 



BONCHRETIEN D'AUCH. Pk. cat. N. Duh. 



D\Auch, but not the Pear d'Auch of Forsyth, which is the Colmar. 

 Bon Chretien 'panache. 



This is one of the most beautiful fruits of its class ; it some- 

 times attains to five inches and more in height, and four inches 

 three lines in breadth ; it is of an irregular pyramidal form, 

 greatly resembling a calabash, and especially the kind usu- 

 ally called a gourd; its surface is neither even nor regu- 

 larly rounded, but on the contrary, is covered with projections 

 slightly raised and of considerable breadth, which form them- 

 selves into ridges of different shape and extent. The eye is 

 placed in a very deep cavity, whose edges present numerous 

 protuberances, extending more or less over the rest jof the 

 fruit ; the skin is light green, approximating to pale yellow at 

 maturity, and wholly scattered over with small dots of deep 

 green, some among which are of a russet hue ; the flesh is 

 firm, granulated, breaking, and rather melting notwithstand- 

 ing, full of sweet juice which is agreeably perfumed. The 

 seeds are frequently abortive, and the fruit ripens in November 

 and December. 



CHAUMONTEL. Pr. cat. N. Duh. For. 



Bezy de Chaumontelle. Pr. cat. 25 ed. 

 Bezy de Chaumonfel. Roz. Coxe. 

 Bezi de Chaumonteh O. Duh. 

 Besi Chaumontelle. Mil. 

 Poire de Chaumontelle. N. Duh. Mil. 

 Beurre d^hyver. Roz. Duh. Mil. 

 Winter Beurre. 

 Winter butter pear. 



The form and the size of this pear are very subject to vary ; 

 in ordinary cases it would rather incline to an ovate form if the 

 part next to the stem was not narrower than that next the eye ; 

 it is not uncommon to find the surface slightly angular on one 

 side or the other. It usually measures from twenty-seven lines 



