The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . variety. Tree vigorous and productive, keeps well,and a good cooking fruit. Young wood olive, with round white specks. Fruit mediiim, roundish obovate, narrow at the stalk. Skin smooth,pale green, thickly speckled with conspicuoiis light gray dots, and be-coming pale yellowish at maturity. Flesh white, crisp, juicy, with aBpiightly flavor. Good for cooking. February to May. Easter BEURRfi. Bergamotte de la Pentecute. Pastorale dHiver. Beurre de la Pentecute. Beurre de Paques. Beun-e dHiver de Bruxelles. Philippe de Paques. Doyenn^ dHiver Bezi Chaumontel
The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . variety. Tree vigorous and productive, keeps well,and a good cooking fruit. Young wood olive, with round white specks. Fruit mediiim, roundish obovate, narrow at the stalk. Skin smooth,pale green, thickly speckled with conspicuoiis light gray dots, and be-coming pale yellowish at maturity. Flesh white, crisp, juicy, with aBpiightly flavor. Good for cooking. February to May. Easter BEURRfi. Bergamotte de la Pentecute. Pastorale dHiver. Beurre de la Pentecute. Beurre de Paques. Beun-e dHiver de Bruxelles. Philippe de Paques. Doyenn^ dHiver Bezi Chaumontelle tr^s-groa. Doyenne du Printemps Chaiimontelle tres-gros. Beurre Roupe. Canning. Du Patre. Seigneur dHiver. Merveille de la Nature. Canning dHiver. The Easter Beurre is considered abroad one of the very best late 752 THE PEAR. winter or spring Pears. It seems to require a rather warmer cKmatethan that of the Eastern States to arrive at full perfection, and has dis-appointed the expectations of many cultivators. It bears well here, but. Easter BenrrA. is rather variable in quality. In good seasons, if packed away in boxesand ripened off in a warm room, it is a delicious, melting, buttery tree grows u])right, and thriftily, with reddish yellow shoots. Itrequires a warm exposure and a rich soil to give fine fruit as an openstandard tree. It is said to succeed well at the South. Pruit large, roundish obovate obtuse, often rather square in yellowish green, sprinkled with many russety dots, and some russet,which give it a brownish cheek in some specimens. Stalk rather short,stout, planted in an abruptly sunken obtuse cavity. Calyx small,closed, but little sunk among the plaited folds of the angular white, fine-grained, very buttery, melting and juicy, with asweet and rich flavor. January to March. Eastnor Castle. Fruit medium, roundish. Skin green and thick. Flesh greenishbite, juicy, melting. December. THE PEAR. 753 Bezi IEchasserie
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