PLATE LXIL 
I. BEURR6 precoce. 
This pear was raised by M. Goubault, a nurseryman at Mille-Pieds, Route de Saumur, 
Angers (c. 1840). 
Description. —Fruit: medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and three inches high; 
obovate, blunt at the stalk, even and regularly shaped. Skin : green, becoming yellowish green as 
it ripens, strewed with large russet specks, and tinged with reddish brown next the sun ; a broad 
zone of rather rough russet encircles the fruit about an inch distant from the eye. Eye : rather 
open, with short segments, set in a round saucer-like basin. Stalk : nearly two inches long, slender, 
set in a round cavity. Flesh : crisp, very juicy, brisk, and refreshing, sometimes with a slight 
astringency. 
A good early pear, ripe about the middle of August. 
The tree is an early and abundant bearer, and forms a handsome pyramid on the pear stock. 
