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 . y planted in a fleshyprotuberance, like a fold. Skin smooth, yellowish-green, veryfine, and of a peculiar waxen appearance. Flesh, white, butteryslightly sub-acid and good. October. Emile dHeyst. Esperen. This fruit was dedicated by Major Esperen to the son of hisfriend L. E. Berckmans of New Jersey. A Belgian fruit. Tree of moderate vigour. A healthy and
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 . y planted in a fleshyprotuberance, like a fold. Skin smooth, yellowish-green, veryfine, and of a peculiar waxen appearance. Flesh, white, butteryslightly sub-acid and good. October. Emile dHeyst. Esperen. This fruit was dedicated by Major Esperen to the son of hisfriend L. E. Berckmans of New Jersey. A Belgian fruit. Tree of moderate vigour. A healthy andgood grower, but straggling and not easily brought to a pyra-midal form. It seems well suited to this climate and grows wellon quince. Young wood fawn or light-brown, rather large or above medium size, long calebasse form. Colourlight-green, washed and waved with fawn and russet, becomesbright yellow at the time of maturity. Stem variable but ratherlong, sometimes fleshy, inserted in an uneven cavity. Calyxsmall, set in a deep narrow basin, surrounded by uneven pro-tuberances. Flesh buttery, melting, very juicy, exceedingly fine,sugary and well perfumed. Ripening well through November.(L. E. Berckmans, Ms.) THE PEAR. 497. Emile dHeyst Emily Bivort. Dedicated by Bouvier to the daughter of the distinguishedBelgian Pomologist A. Bivort. Tree of slow growth, but very hardy, with reddish or lio-htbrown, upright, stout, short shoots. * Fruit medium, oblate, inclining to conic, very much deep orange-yellow, much covered with russet. Stalkshort and fleshy, inserted in a rather deep cavity, surrounded byprotuberances. Calyx small, set in a deep well formed yellowish, buttery, melting, abounding in rich sugaryvinous juice, with a peculiar flavour, somewhat resembling 498 THE PEAR. quince. Ripens October, November, and keeps well. (L. , Ms.)
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