The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . ely received from Kenrick, with his usual liberality, gave scions to the lateMr. Manning, in whose collection it first fruited, in 1844or 1845, and the younger Mr. Manning has fully confirmedMr. Kenricks favorable notice of it, in a short description ofthe fruit, from specimens produced in his garden, in our vol-ume for 1846, (XII. p. 147.) Since then, we have had sev-eral opportunities of tasting the fruit from Mr. Mannings col-lection, and we fully agree in all the encomiums whic
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . ely received from Kenrick, with his usual liberality, gave scions to the lateMr. Manning, in whose collection it first fruited, in 1844or 1845, and the younger Mr. Manning has fully confirmedMr. Kenricks favorable notice of it, in a short description ofthe fruit, from specimens produced in his garden, in our vol-ume for 1846, (XII. p. 147.) Since then, we have had sev-eral opportunities of tasting the fruit from Mr. Mannings col-lection, and we fully agree in all the encomiums which havebeen bestowed upon it. The Duchesse dOrleans, {fig. 23,) is a very handsome pear,having a fine yellow skin, mottled with golden russet. The 204 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. tree is vigorous and hardy, and has somewhat of an irregularspreading habit, though, when young, the branches grow up-right. It is also a good bearer. Wood, greenish-yellow, withprominent buds. Size, large, about three and a half inches long, and twoand a half in diameter: Form, regular, pyramidal, full at. ^. DuchessedOrleans. the crown, little contracted in the middle, and tapering to thestem : Skin, slightly rough, light yellow, mottled with goldenrusset in the shade, thinly marked with red in the sun, andsparsely covered with small russet specks : Stem, long, aboutone and a quarter inches in length, rather stout, swollen atthe end adjoining the tree, straight, and obliquely inserted in Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 205 a fleshy base without any cavity : Eye, medium size, open,and scarcely depressed ; segments of the calyx short, project-ing : Flesh, yellowish, fine, buttery, melting, and juicy : Fla-vor, rich, sugary, and delicious, with a pleasant musky aroma:Core, medium size: Seeds, medium size, rather long, darkbrown. Ripe in October. 95. Beurre Crapaud. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 1832. Some eight or ten years since, the late Hon. John Lowellexhibited some specimens
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