. The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . n should properly be called Fondante du Bois, andgiving, in proof, two dissimilar outlines and descrip-tions. Of the latter, as a distinct variety, I have no per-sonal knowledge, having always been accustomed toconsider it a synonym, either of the Flemish Beauty,or of another variety, under which it is also placedby Downing. The Belle Lucrative is my favorite pear, and I haveobserved its habits and characteristics, with consi-derable attention. I find that its form varies in themost extraordinary manner, and it is not uncommonto find spec
. The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . n should properly be called Fondante du Bois, andgiving, in proof, two dissimilar outlines and descrip-tions. Of the latter, as a distinct variety, I have no per-sonal knowledge, having always been accustomed toconsider it a synonym, either of the Flemish Beauty,or of another variety, under which it is also placedby Downing. The Belle Lucrative is my favorite pear, and I haveobserved its habits and characteristics, with consi-derable attention. I find that its form varies in themost extraordinary manner, and it is not uncommonto find specimens the most dissimilar, upon the sametree, and which, a person not well acquainted withthe variety and its vagaries, would not suspect it tobelong to the same sort until tested. I send several copies of outlines traced from speci-mens grown by myself, of the unmistakably genuineBelle Lucrative, some of which you will find to varyquite as much as the two accompanying the article inquestion, and each of which might pass for that of adistinct I think that a comparatively small proportion ofspecimens are so much elongated as the outline givenby Downing, the more roundish form predominating.
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