1854 , 
THE CULTIVATOR 
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Notices of Standard Pears. 
Louise Bonne of Jersey. This fine old variety 
has long since taken the head of the list of mid-au¬ 
tumn pears on quince stocks. It seems to be entirely 
at home on this stock, and to succeed even better in 
most instances, both in the growth of the tree, in its 
productiveness, and in flavor, than when grown upon 
the pear. Dwarf trees will live to a great age, and 
continue to afford abundant yearly crops. 
Although this variety is not first-rate in the flavor of 
the fruit, yet its good size, fair, handsome appearance, 
and the fine growth and great productiveness of the 
tree, render it eminently valuable, holding about the 
same place among autumn pears that the Baldwin 
does among winter apples, if such a comparison is al¬ 
lowable. A description is scarcely necessary—-we may 
merely state that the fruit is rather large in size, the 
surface smooth, pale yellowish green, with a brownish, 
dotted, red cheek; flesh yellowish white, very juicy, 
melting, somewhat buttery, with a rich, fine, faintly 
sub-acid flavor. The growth is upright, shoots rather 
dark, and leaves coarsely serrate. 
Flemish Beauty. It is hard to find a fruit that 
combines so many excellent qualities as the Flemish 
Beauty. The tree is handsome, productive, and of 
strong and vigorous growth ; it will flourish on almost 
any soil, even on a gravel where many other sorts par¬ 
tially fail; the fruit is large, usually very fair, of fine 
form and appearance, with an agreeable melting tex¬ 
ture, and an excellent flavor. The only defect is a li¬ 
ability to drop too soon from the tree, requiring pick¬ 
ing in time. To be of the best quality, it needs house¬ 
ripening. The figure gives the form, but good speci¬ 
mens are not unfrequently double the size represented. 
The “ Beurre Spence,” which Van Mons declared to 
be the best of all the Flemish pears, and which so long 
puzzled pomologists to obtain without success, is now 
believed to be no other than Flemish Beauty. As a 
proof of the productiveness of this variety, we need 
only mention the fact stated last autumn at a pomolo- 
gical meeting at Saratoga, by T. C. Maxwell of Gene¬ 
va, that he had trees seven years planted and two 
years old when set out, that bore two bushels each, in 
1852, and over one bushel in 1853. 
