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 . ne 434 THE PEAR. warm cheek. Stalk rather short and stout, inserted in around cavity. Calyx open, basin shallow. Flesh buttery, juicy,melting, sweet, aromatic, and excellent. September and October. Doyenne dete. Nois. Bon. Jard. Summer Doyenn6. Doyenne de Juillet. Duchess de Berry dete of Bivort. Tree very vigorous, upright, an early and profu


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 . ne 434 THE PEAR. warm cheek. Stalk rather short and stout, inserted in around cavity. Calyx open, basin shallow. Flesh buttery, juicy,melting, sweet, aromatic, and excellent. September and October. Doyenne dete. Nois. Bon. Jard. Summer Doyenn6. Doyenne de Juillet. Duchess de Berry dete of Bivort. Tree very vigorous, upright, an early and profuse small, roundish, obovate, slightly turbinate. Skin smooth,fine, yellow, often shaded with bright red, and covered withnumerous grey or russet dots. Stalk rather short and thick,fleshy at its junction, with the fruit, almost without small, and open in a very shallow, slightly corrugatedbasin. Flesh white, melting, juicy, with a sweet pleasant very good early pear, ripening about the same time, or alittle later than Madeline. Last oif July. Doyenne dAlen50n. Doyenne dHiver dAlengon. PrevoostDoyenne Gris d Hiver Marbre. Cat. H. dHiver Nouveau. Michael Doyenne d^Hiver dAlencon THE PEA I?. 435 Tree vigorous, making a handsome pyramid, succeeds onquince. Fruit medium, roundish-oval, inclining to obovate orpyriform. Skin rough, yellow, shaded with dull crimson, orcarmine, thickly sprinkled with russet or brown dots. Stalk ofmoderate length, pretty large, inserted in a medium open, seg-ments persistent, basin deep, round, somewhat granular, buttery, juicy, sugary, very rich,sprightly, and highly perfumed. December to April. Doyenne Sieulle. Sieulle. Beurre Sieulle.


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