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THE PEAR. 
Passe Colmar. Lind. Tliomp. P. Mag. 
Ananas d’Hiver. 
Passe Colmar Epineaux. 
Colmar Gris. 
Passe Colmar Gris. 
Beurre Colmar Gris, dit precel. 
Precel. 
Eondante de Panisel. 
Eondante de Mons. 
Beurre d’Argenson. 
Regintin. 
Pucelle Condesienne. 
Colmar Hardenpont. 
Present de Malines. 
Marotte Sucree Jaune, 
Souyeraine d’Hiver. 
ac. to Colmar Souyeraine. 
Thorny. Gambier. 
Cellite. 
Colmar Preule. 
Colmar Doree. 
D’ Ananas, {of some.) 
The Passe Colmar is a Belgian pear, raised by the Counsellor 
Hardenpont. Vigorous growth, and abundant bearer. It grows 
indeed almost too thrifty, making long, bending shoots, and 
owing to this over-luxuriance, the fruit is often second rate on 
young trees, but on old trees, with high cultivation, it is some- 
times of the best quality. It is a very variable fruit, and often 
poor. The young shoots are of a lively brownish-yellow. 
Fruit rather large, varying considerably from obovate to ob- 
tuse-pyriform. Skin rather thick, yellowish-green, becoming 
yellow at maturity, a good deal sprinkled with light-brown rus- 
set. Stalk an inch and a half long, inserted in an obtuse, une- 
ven cavity, or sometimes without depression. Calyx open, basin 
shallow. Flesh yellowish-white, buttery and juicy, with a rich, 
sweet, aromatic flavour. 
Passans du Portugal. Thomp. 
Summer Portugal. Miller’s Early. 
A delicate and pleasant pear, which comes early into bear- 
ing, and produces very large crops. Shoots upright, reddish- 
brown. 
Fruit small, roundish, and much flattened. Skin pale yel- 
low, with a cheek of fairest brown, becoming red in the sun. 
Stalk nearly an inch long, inserted in a round, regular hollow. 
Calyx stiff, basin moderately sunk. Flesh white, juicy, break- 
ing, of very delicate, agreeable flavour. Last of August. 
Pater Noster. 
Fruit large, oblong. Skin yellow-russet. Stalk medium in 
length, wrinkled, enlarged at its insertion, which is at an incli- 
nation in a small irregular cavity. Calyx open, segments stiff, 
in a small even basin. Flesh yellowish, juicy and melting, with 
a rather rich, vinous, or subacid flavour, pleasantly perfumed. 
November, December. 
