PLATE XXXVI. 
3. ALEXANDRINE DOUILLARD. 
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This variety was raised by M. Douillard, jun., architect, of Nantes, and first produced fruit 
in 1849. 
Description .—Fruit : large, three inches and a half high, and two inches and three-quarters 
wide ; pyriform. Skin : yellowish grey, becoming brighter at maturity. Eye : small, with downy 
segments, placed in a slightly depressed basin. Stalk : three-quarters of an inch long, slender, 
curved, swollen at the point of junction with the fruit, and inserted in a slight cavity. Flesh : 
white, fine grained, juicy, agreeably flavoured, sweet and perfumed. 
A dessert Pear of great excellence ; in season during November and December. 
The tree is healthy, and very vigorous in growth. It forms a handsome pyramid on the 
Quince, and is well adapted for a standard. It bears well. 
