Plate XXII. 
2. TRIOMPHE DE JODOIGNE. 
This fine pear was raised by M. Simon Bouvier, and fruited for the first time in 1843. 
Description. —Fruit: large, obovate, regular and handsome. Skin : yellow, covered with 
numerous small russety dots and patches of thin brown russet. Eye : open, set in a slight 
depression. Stalk : an inch and a quarter long, curved and inserted without depression. Flesh : 
yellowish white, rather coarse, melting, juicy, sugary and brisk, with an agreeable musky perfume. 
The Triomphe de Jodoigne is a very excellent pear when grown on soil that suits it, but on 
very heavy or indifferent soils it is apt to be coarse in flavour. 
The tree is very hardy and very prolific. On the pear stock it grows as freely as the 
Jargonelle , and makes large extended espaliers. On the Quince stock it will grow well, but makes 
rather a straggling pyramid. 
