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PEARS; 



only seventeen lines in height, by nineteen in diameter ; the 

 eye is small and very slightly sunk ; the stem is straight, six 

 lines in length, and inserted in a cavity which is deep and 

 broad in proportion to the size of the fruit ; the skin is green, 

 changing to yellow at full maturity, but it is so much covered 

 with brown spots that one distinguishes but little of the ground 

 colour ; the flesh is melting, sweet, and perfumed ; the seeds 

 are black, small, and frequently abortive, and the fruit ripens 

 in November. The tree cannot be propagated successfully 

 on the quince, and even upon the pear stock it is quite delicate 

 and not very vigorous in light soils ; it requires to be planted 

 in a fresh and rather strong soil. When the earth is of a 

 character that suits it in all respects, it yields abundance ot 

 fruit, which is produced in clusters. 



This variety takes its name of Besi de Caissoy or Wilding 

 of Caissoy, from a forest of Brittany, where it was discovered, 

 and where it passes under the title of Roussette d'Anjou. 



DUTCHESS OF ANGOULEME. Pom. mag. Pb. cat. 

 Dutchesse (VAngouUme^ of most publications. 



This fine fruit, introduced some years since to our country 

 from Holland, France, and England, is recorded to have been 

 discovered growing in a wild state in a hedge near Antwerp. 

 Its form and appearance are very much that of a Bonchretien. 

 The Pomological Magazine gives the following details in re- 

 gard to it. 



" This is the very finest of the late autumn pears, and ripens 

 at the end of November. It is remarkable, not only for its 

 excellence, but also for its irregular knobby surface, covered 

 with broad patches of brown, by which it is readily known. 

 It arrives at a weight quite unusual in pears that are fit for the 

 dessert — specimens from the island of Jersey having been seen 

 weighing twenty-two ounces ; and in 1827, a fruit ripened in 

 the garden of the London Horticultural Society weighing 



