PLATE XL. 
2. Professeur Du Breuil. 3. Baronne De Mello. 
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2. PROFESSEUR DU BREUIL. 
This Pear was raised at Rouen. The tree is said to have first fruited in 1851. The pear 
was named in honour of M. Alphonse du Breuil, Professor of Arboriculture in Paris. 
Description .—Fruit : above medium size, three inches and a quarter long and twx> and a 
half wide ; obovate, uneven and undulating in its outline. Skin : greenish yellow, thickly dotted 
with russet, and with a tinge of red next the sun. Eye : small and open, level with the surface. 
Stalk : half an inch long, stout, inserted without depression. Flesh : half melting, very juicy, with 
a rich sprightly flavour, and a musky perfume. 
This is an excellent Pear, and is in season in September. 
The tree makes a good pyramid on the quince. 
3. BARONNE DE MELLO. 
[Syn : His ; Phillipe Goes.~\ 
This excellent Pear is said to have been raised by Van Mons, who sent it, about 1830, to 
M. Poiteau, of Paris. This gentleman dedicated it to M. His, at that time Inspector General of 
Public Libraries. At a later period M. Jamin, of Bourg-la-Reine, having received it from Belgium 
