PLATE LXX. 
5. JOSEPHINE DE MALINES. 
This excellent pear was also one of Major Esperen’s seedlings. It was raised about 1830, 
and was thus named in compliment to his wife. 
Description. —Fruit: about medium size. Skin : smooth, yellow, with a greenish tint on the 
shaded side, and with a tinge of red on the side next the sun ; the whole surface strewed with large 
russet spots. Eye : open, set in a rather shallow depression. Stalk : three quarters of an inch long, 
stout, and inserted in a narrow cavity. Flesh : yellowish, with a tinge of red or faint rosy tint 
around the core, melting and very juicy, sugary, vinous, and richly flavoured, with a high rosewater 
aroma. 
A delicious pear, in season from February to May. 
The tree is hardy, and an excellent bearer. It has the peculiarity of retaining perfect and 
abiding health, when grafted on the White Thorn (Cratcegus Oxycantha), and hence an abundance 
of this valuable fruit may be obtained, with common care, from a whitethorn hedge. The grafts 
grow readily and form healthy trees bearing freely. 
