The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . Fig. 7. Eyewood. Stem, long, about one and a half inches, slender, curved, andinserted in a small, moderately deep cavity : Eye, small, open,and little sunk in a round, smooth, shallow basin: segmentsof the calyx short, and partially reflexed : Flesh, white, rathercoarse, melting and juicy: Flavor, rich, subacid, and brisk,with an agreeable musky aroma: Core, large: Seeds, large,broad, and partially flattened. Ripe in October, and keepsfor some time. VOL. XIV.—NO. II. fi 62 Descripliotts of Sel
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . Fig. 7. Eyewood. Stem, long, about one and a half inches, slender, curved, andinserted in a small, moderately deep cavity : Eye, small, open,and little sunk in a round, smooth, shallow basin: segmentsof the calyx short, and partially reflexed : Flesh, white, rathercoarse, melting and juicy: Flavor, rich, subacid, and brisk,with an agreeable musky aroma: Core, large: Seeds, large,broad, and partially flattened. Ripe in October, and keepsfor some time. VOL. XIV.—NO. II. fi 62 Descripliotts of Select Varieties of Pears. 88. Beurre Duval. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. Mr. Manning has already given our readers some accountof the Beurre Duval, {fig. 8,) in a previous volume of theMagazine, (VI. p. 89,) where he states it to be very excellentand productive. Our opinion is, that it very nearly, if notquite, equals the Andrews, to which we compare it, not onlyon account of its good quality, but because it very much re-sembles it in form and color, as well as in the peculiar flavor. Fig. 8. Beurrd Duval. of that fine pear. It is of large size, not, however, of the firstclass, and of regular form, and the trees are vigorous and pro-ductive. Mr. Manning, we believe, was the first to fruit this varietyhere. We find the name of Duval among the lot of scionsreceived from Van Mons in 1836, and we presume that this wasthe period when he obtained it: he opened a correspondence Descrlplio7is of Select Vailetlcs of Pears. (^3 with M. Duval, from whom he received several kinds ofpears, and he may have had it from M. Duval himself It isa new fruit, and as yet but little known. Lindley does notmention it, although it is included in the Catalogue of theHorticultural Society for 1831. The trees, we have said, are productive, and to this wemay add, that they are of vigorous growth, and hardy. Itsucceeds also upon the quince, and trees come into bearingmoderately early, about the fourth or fifth ye
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