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THE PEAR. 
Fruit medium size, obovate, a little inclining to oblong. Skin 
smooth, pale yellowish-green, dotted with reddish points, and 
having a thin, pale brown blush. Stalk about an inch long, 
inserted in a slight depression. Calyx stiff, open, set in a round 
basin of moderate size. Flesh white, fine grained, buttery, and 
good. Middle of October. 
Amir£ Joannet. Thomp. 
Early sugar, Pom. Man. St. Jean. 
Sugar Pear. % Joannette. 
Harvest Pear. St. John’s Pear. 
Archduc d’ete? 
This fruit, better known here as the Early Sugar pear, is 
one of the very earliest, ripening at the beginning of July — in 
France, whence it originally comes, about St. John’s day— - 
whence the name, Joannet. It is a pleasant fruit, of second 
quality, and lasts but a few days in perfection. It opens the 
pear season, with the little Muscat, to which it is superiour. 
Fruit below the middle size, regularly pyriform, tapering to the 
stalk, which is an inch and a half long, and thickest at the point 
of junction. Skin very smooth, at first light green, but becomes 
bright lemon colour at maturity — very rarely with a faint blush. 
Calyx large, with reflexed segments, even with the surface. 
Flesh white, sugary, delicate and juicy at first, but soon becomes 
mealy; seeds very pointed. Head of the tree open, with a few 
declining branches. 
Ananas de Courtrai. 
Tree very vigorous and productive, takes readily any form ; 
turbinate, pyriform. Skin citron-yellow at maturity, beauti- 
fully coloured on the sunny side. Flesh white, firm, buttery, 
melting, sweet and juicy, pleasantly perfumed, but not musky. 
Ripens at the end of August. (An. Pom.) 
Ananas D’Ete. Thomp. 
Ananas, (of Manning.) 
This fruit was first received from the London Horticultural 
Society, by Mr. Manning. It is a very excellent pear, with a 
rich and somewhat peculiar flavour, but should rather be called 
an autumn pine-apple, than a summer one. 
Fruit rather large, pyriform, or occasionally obtuse at the 
stalk. Skin rough and coarse, dark yellowish-green, with a 
little brown on one side, and much covered with large rough, 
brown russet dots. Stalk an inch and a quarter long, inserted 
sometimes in a blunt cavity, sometimes without depression, by 
the side of a lip. Calyx open, with short divisions, basin shah 
