. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. S6 DROUARD DROUARD: See President Drouard. DUCHESSE D'ANGOULEME. Fig. 82. AiifiouU'iitr. The fruits of Duchesse d'An- gouleme excite admiration and wonder by their enormous size. They may always be known by their size, squat pyriform shape, and uneven knobby surface. Well grown, the fJesh is buttery and melting with a rich and delicious flavor; but poorly grown, and on unfavorable. 82. Duchesse d'Angouleme. (XVi) soils, the flesh is granular, coarse-grained, but half-melting, and nearly devoid of the richness that characterizes the fruits in
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. S6 DROUARD DROUARD: See President Drouard. DUCHESSE D'ANGOULEME. Fig. 82. AiifiouU'iitr. The fruits of Duchesse d'An- gouleme excite admiration and wonder by their enormous size. They may always be known by their size, squat pyriform shape, and uneven knobby surface. Well grown, the fJesh is buttery and melting with a rich and delicious flavor; but poorly grown, and on unfavorable. 82. Duchesse d'Angouleme. (XVi) soils, the flesh is granular, coarse-grained, but half-melting, and nearly devoid of the richness that characterizes the fruits in happier situa- tions. The trees are vigorous, hardy and healthy, bear abundantlj' under favorable con- ditions, and succeed either as standards or dwarfs. Possibly this sort is best grown as a dwarf, and in America at least is more often worked on the dwarfing quince than on the pear. This variety is the favorite dwarf pear for garden and home orchard, and commercial orchards of dwarfed trees are not uncommon. On either stock, the tree makes a beautiful and symmetrical pyramid, and comes in bear- ing early and bears regularly. This variety is more popular in New York than in any other part of America, and while less planted than formerly, is still regarded as a standard late autumn variety. The original tree of Duchesse d'Angouleme was a wilding growing in a garden near Angers, France. It was introduced about 1812. Tree vigorous, upright, becoming spreading, dense- topped, slow-growing, productive; branches stocky, shaggy, zigzag, dull reddish-brown, marked with small lenticels. Leaves 2% inches long, 1% inches wide, oval, thick, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin marked with minute dark brown glands, crenate, or nearly entire; petiole 1% inches long. Flowers 1% inches across, 7 or 8 buds in each cluster. Fruit ripe October- November; large, often very large, 3% inches long. 2^4 inches wide, uniform in size, oblong-obovate-pyriform DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU with irregular and uneven
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