. The American fruit culturist. ontracted from the rounded neck;basin very shallow, even; flesh of fine texture, buttery, verymelting, juicy; flavor nearly sweet, aromatic, slightly perfumed,excellent. Ripens the last two weeks of summer. Shoots quitedark brown, erect, vigorous. The tree does not come soon intobearing. Pennsylvania. Fig. 686. Wilder. Large, pyriform; pale yellow, shaded dark russet red;dots small, numerous; flesh pale yellow, fine-grained, tender,sub-acid, juicy. A Fox seedling. Verv good. THE PEAR. 513 Class II. Obscure Pyriform, Obovate or Turbinate. Bloodgood.* Size medium,
. The American fruit culturist. ontracted from the rounded neck;basin very shallow, even; flesh of fine texture, buttery, verymelting, juicy; flavor nearly sweet, aromatic, slightly perfumed,excellent. Ripens the last two weeks of summer. Shoots quitedark brown, erect, vigorous. The tree does not come soon intobearing. Pennsylvania. Fig. 686. Wilder. Large, pyriform; pale yellow, shaded dark russet red;dots small, numerous; flesh pale yellow, fine-grained, tender,sub-acid, juicy. A Fox seedling. Verv good. THE PEAR. 513 Class II. Obscure Pyriform, Obovate or Turbinate. Bloodgood.* Size medium, turbinate, approaching obovate, basecontracted abruptly to the stalk; yellow, touched with russet;stalk fleshy at insertion, an inch and a fourth long, set on therounded base without depression ; calyx scarcely sunk ; flesh yel-lowish white, buttery, and melting, with a fine, rich, aromaticflavor. Sometimes rots at the core. On some soils the flavor be-comes poor and insipid. Ripens middle of August. Like all Fig. 691.— Fig. 692.—Osbands Summer. FiG. 693.—Diel. FiG. 694.—Ott. early pears, it is best if house-ripened. Origin, Long Island, Fig. 678. Dearborns Seedling.* Scarcely medium in size, obovate orBuffum-shaped, regular, smooth; surface clear yellow, with • minute specks; stalk an inch long, sunk little or none; basinvery shallow; flesh very fine grained, juicy, melting, and of fineflavor. Ripens nearly with the Bloodgood, or middle of straight, long, dark brown. Tree bears when 674. Massachusetts. Henrietta. Size, a little below medium; obovate, crown flat-tened ; stalk set on the rounded point of the neck; skin smooth,pale yellowish-green, dots few; stalk an inch and a half long,cavity small or none; calyx closed, basin shallow, faintly plaited ;melting, juicy, sub-acid, with a good second-rate flavor. Veryproductive. Late summer. Origin, New Haven, Conn. Limon. (Hagerston.) Size medium ; obovate, sometimes slightly pyriform
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