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PEARS. 



an agreeable odour, and an acid flavour like that of the Forty 

 ounces, and it is likewise very good when cooked ; this fruit 

 begins to ripen in the month of November. 



BELLE BESSA. N. Duh. 



This pear is very beautiful, and measures four inches in 

 height, and three inches at its greatest diameter, which is nearly 

 at the middle of its height, as the two extremities diminish 

 very perceptibly, especially that next the stem, which is in- 

 serted somewhat obliquely in a pretty deep cavity, surrounded 

 by protuberances ; the eye is likewise placed in a depression, 

 whose border is rendered uneven by projections — in general 

 the circumference of the fruit is not perfectly round ; the skin 

 is a very light green, faintly approaching yellow at full matu- 

 rity, and interspersed by some small russet specks ; the flesh 

 is somewhat firm, bland, and agreeable, without being very 

 high flavoured, and the fruit ripens in November and De- 

 cember. 



It is remarked in the New Duhamel, that this pear is of late 

 origin, and not having been previously named by any cultiva- 

 tor, the editors dedicated it to M. Bessa as a testimony of satis- 

 faction for the assiduity evinced by him in the completion of 

 the designs of that w^ork. 



ANGLETERRE D'HIVER. Roz. Duh. Pr. cat. 



This pear, well known around Paris by the French title 

 above, must, if its origin is correctly indicated by its name, 

 be doubtless synonymous with some one of the English pears 

 known to us by a different appellation. 



In the New Duhamel it is described as being of a very re- 

 gular pyramidal form, with the head rounded, and measuring 

 three inches and six or eight lines in height, and thirty-one to 

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

 fifteen lines in length, is situated even with the fruit, and the 



