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THE PEAR. 
Richards. 
Origin, Wilmington, Delaware. Fruit rather large, obovate. 
oblate, pyriform. Skin yellow, with numerous small russet dots. 
Stalk of medium length, curved, inserted by a fleshy ring in a 
slight depression. Calyx partially closed, basin very small. 
Flesh buttery, juicy, melting, granulated, with a sweet, pleasant, 
vinous flavour. Ripens first of October. 
Ridelle’s. Bivort. 
Beurre Audusson. Thomp. Poire B-itefle. 
Tree of moderate vigour, reddish-brown shoots. Productive. 
Fruit medium, oblate, turbinate, remotely pyriform. Skin 
yellow, covered nearly all over with bright red. Stalk short, 
fleshy at its insertion by a lip. Calyx open, in a very shallow 
basin. Flesh not very fine, rather juicy, not melting or deli- 
cate in flavour. September. 
Roe’s Bergamotte. 
Raised by William Roe, Newburgh, N. Y. Tree moderately 
vigorous, very productive. 
Fruit medium, oblate, or Bergamotte-shaped, somewhat angu- 
lar and irregular. Skin smooth, yellow, with minute yellow 
dots in the shade, mottled and clouded with red on the sunny 
side. Stalk short, inserted in a narrow, abrupt cavity. Calyx 
small, with short stiff segments, set in a narrow basin. Flesh 
rather coarse, melting, with a sweet, rich, brisk, well perfumed 
flavour. Core large. The flavour of this excellent new pear is 
extremely like Gansel’s Bergamotte, but much more sugarv, 
September. 
Rousselet Esperen. 
Bousselet Double. Esperen. 
Tree very vigorous, and very productive. Fruit pyriform, 
turbinate, largest at its middle. Skin lemon yellow at maturi- 
ty, strongly pointed with reddish-grey and white dots, and co- 
vered with russet around calyx and stalk. Flesh whitish, half 
fine, half melting, juicy, sugary, vinous and perfumed. Ripens 
well, and is long in use. September. (Al. Pom.) 
Rousselet Enfant Prodigue. Yan Mons. 
Enfant Prodigue. Bivort 
One of Yan Mons’ seedlings. Tree vigorous, productive. 
Fruit medium, pyriform. Skin thick and rough, green, co- 
vered with russet, sometimes with a sunny cheek. Stalk of me- 
dium length, in an inclined cavity. Calyx large, basin shallow. 
Flesh greenish-white, juicy, granular, with a first rate, vinous 
flavour, very much resembling Brown Beurre, but more sugary; 
highly perfumed with musk. October, November. 
