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obovate. Skin at first of a deep green colour, thickly covered with grey 
russet, becoming of a lemon-yellow colour as it attains maturity. Eye large 
and open, with short stunted segments. Stalk very short and slender, not 
more than half an inch long, inserted in a small and uneven cavity. Flesh 
fine-grained, buttery, and melting, slightly gritty at the core, remarkably juicy, 
sugary, and perfumed. 
A first-rate dessert Pear, ripe in the end of October, and lasting in use till 
Christmas. 
The tree is very hardy, a vigorous grower, and an abundant bearer. It 
was raised by M. Boisbunel, of Rouen, from seed sown in 1846, and first 
produced fruit in 1858. 
AMIRE JOANNET .—Buh. 
Identification. —Duh. Arb. Fruit, ii. 125. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. n. 8. Down. 
Fr. Amer. 330. 
Synonymes. —Admire Joannet, Merlet Abr6g6. Joannet, Poit et Turp. Jeanette, 
Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. Petit St. Jean, Acc. Bon. Jard. 1848. p. 494. St. Jean, Acc. 
Dalbret Cours. 327. St. John’s Pear, Ken Amer. Or. 131. Early Sugar, Pom. Man. 
Sugar Pear, Acc. Down. Fr. Amer. Harvest Pear, Ibid. Johannisbirn, Christ Worberb. 
184. Kornbirn, Acc. Gott. Obst. 318. Henbirn, Ibid. 
Fruit small, regularly pyriform. Skin very smooth, of a pale greenish 
yellow colour at first, which changes as it ripens to a beautiful deep w r axen 
yellow, and with a faint tinge of red on the side exposed to the sun. Eye 
open, with stout erect segments, and placed even with the surface. Stalk from 
1| to inch long, stout and fleshy at the insertion where it is attached to the 
fruit without depression. Flesh white, tender, juicy, sugary, and pleasantly 
flavoured, but soon becomes mealy. 
This is one of the earliest summer Pears. It ripens in July, and is called 
Amire Joannet from being ready in some parts of France about St. John’s day, 
the 24th of June. 
The tree is of small growth, and for standards should be grown on the 
pear, although for dwarfs it succeeds equally well on the quince. 
ANANAS.— Knoop. 
Identification. —Knoop Pom. 78. tab. i. Bon Jard. 1848. 497. 
Synonymes. —Knoop’s Ananasbirne, Diet Kernobst. vii. 74. Ananas Peer, Knoop 
Pom. tab. i. 
Figure. —Knoop Pom. tab. i. 
Fruit about medium size, 2£ inches broad, and about the same in height; 
roundish-obovate or bergamot-shaped. Skin smooth, of a deep lively green 
colour at first, but changing as it ripens to yellowish green, with a slight tinge of 
red next the sun, and strewed with brown russet dots. Eye large and open, 
with stout, broad segments, and set in a moderately deep basin. Stalk from 
half an inch to an inch long, stout and fleshy at the insertion. Flesh white, 
slightly gritty, but juicy and melting, with a rich sugary, aromatic, and musky 
flavour, supposed by some to resemble that of the Pine Apple : hence the 
name. 
This is an excellent dessert Pear, ripe during the end of September, but 
does not continue long. 
The Passe Colmar is sometimes found under this name, but they are totally 
distinct varieties, and it is very different from the Beurre Ancuicis of the 
Belgian pomologists. 
