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PEAR. 



Standard, though its long and flexible shoots require 

 some care on its first going off. It makes a beau- 

 tiful espalier or wall tree on a west aspect, and is in 

 every situation a good bearer. Its favourite soil 

 appears to be a sandy loam on a marly bottom. 



32. Bonnt Louise P, — Fit to gather about the first 

 of November, and keeps good for five or six weeks, 

 according to the season. The fruit are full middle 

 sized, shaped like the autumn vert longe, only not 

 so contracted at the stalk, which is very short, thick, 

 and somewhat bent. The eye is small, so also are 

 the flowers ; skin smooth, green, turning to a whitish 

 yellow when ripe. The pulp is melting, juicy, and 

 of an agreeably sweet flavour. The tree is healthy, 

 though not vigorous ; but does well on a west wall 

 or espalier, in dry sheltered situations. In Jersey it 

 is called Louis Dix-huU, where it is grown in great 

 perfection. It is a good bearer. 



33. Echasserie P. — Ripe from the end of Novem- 

 ber to Christmas. This is a variety of French ex- 

 traction, and has been long in this country. The 

 fruit are middle sized, rather oval, but more swollen 

 towards the eye ; the stalk is straight, long, in- 

 serted in a hollow ; eye small; skin smooth, green 

 with some brown spots while on the tree, afterwards 

 yellow. The pulp very melting, abounding with a 

 sweet perfumed juice. It is a healthy tree, but not 

 a great bearer ; and as the best fruit are produced 

 from the spurs of the young wood, care must be 

 taken to lay in as much of this as possible, and use 

 the knife to produce it. 



