The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . ted. Head of the tree open, with a fewdeclining branches. Ananas de Courtrai. Tree very vigorous and productive, takes readily any form;turbinate, pyriform. Skin citron-yellow at maturity, beauti-fully coloured on the sunny side. Flesh white, firm, buttery,melting, sweet and juicy, pleasantly perfumed, but not at the end of August. (An. Pom.)
The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . ted. Head of the tree open, with a fewdeclining branches. Ananas de Courtrai. Tree very vigorous and productive, takes readily any form;turbinate, pyriform. Skin citron-yellow at maturity, beauti-fully coloured on the sunny side. Flesh white, firm, buttery,melting, sweet and juicy, pleasantly perfumed, but not at the end of August. (An. Pom.) Ananas DEt6. , {of Manning.) This fruit was first received from the London HorticulturalSociety, by Mr. Manning. It is a very excellent pear, with arich and somewhat peculiar flavour, but should rather be calledan autumn pine-apple, than a summer one. Fruit rather large, pyriform, or occasionally obtuse at thestalk. Skin rough and coarse, dark yellowish-green, with alittle brown on one side, and much covered with large rough,brown russet dots. Stalk an inch and a quarter long, insertedsometimes in a blunt cavity, sometimes without depression, bythe side of a lip. Calyx open, with short divisions, basin shal- THE PEAR. 451. Ananas cPEie. low. Flesh fine grained, buttery and melting, with a sweet,perfiimed, and high flavour. September and October. Vari-able, sometimes poor. \ Andrews. Man. Gibson. The Andrews is a favourite native seedling, found in the neigh-bourhood of Dorchester, and first introduced to notice by agentleman of Boston, whose name it bears. It has, for the last15 years, been one of the most popular fruits. It is of mostexcellent flavour, but variable and subject to rot at the core. Fruit rather large, pyriform, one-sided. Skin smooth, andrather thick, pale yellowish-green, with a dull red cheek, and a 452 THE FEAR.
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