Plate XIII. 
2. DOYENNE DU COMICE. 
|_Syn : Cornice'] 
This valuable pear was raised in the garden of the Comice Horticole, at Angers, and the 
original tree first bore fruit in 1849. 
Description. —Fruit, large, three inches wide, and three inches and a half high ; pyramidal or 
obovate, sometimes rather uneven in its outline. Skin, lemon yellow, with a greenish tinge, 
considerably covered with speckles and patches of pale brown russet, and particularly so round the 
eye and the stalk. Eye, small and open, with short pointed segments, set in a considerable 
depression. Stalk, half an inch to an inch long, fleshy at the base ; sometimes curved, and inserted 
in a round narrow cavity; sometimes very short and stout, and obliquely inserted almost at right 
angles with the fruit. Flesh, yellowish white, very tender, buttery and melting, very juicy, rich, 
sweet, and delicately perfumed, with a sort of cinnamon flavour. 
A most delicious pear, in season from the end of October to the middle of December. 
Its season is prolonged if it is gathered at intervals before it is ripe, and handled very gently. 
The tree grows well, and bears pretty freely. It forms handsome pyramids on the quince. 
In this form it can be a little protected when in bloom, and its merits richly deserve it. 
The specimen represented on the plate was grown on a cordon tree against the wall at 
Holme Lacy, and is larger than if it had been grown on a pyramid. 
