FRUITS. VARIETIES AND CULTURE. 



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Tree of slow growth, but remarkably healthy and pro- 

 ductive. Origin, Philadelphia. This is by many consid- 

 ered, and perhaps justly, the very best variety of pear. 



Fig". 109. — BEURRE CLAIRGEAU. 



Bciirre Clair g€ an. — Fruit large, pyriform, with unequal 

 sides ; skin warm yellow, inclining to fawn, thickly sprink- 

 led with large, yellow dots, with russet tracings and spots, 



