The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . 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 de
The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . 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 de Chasaeray. ECHASSERIE. Longue Winter liong Green Wilding. A French Pear of second quality, prodiictive. Fruit of medixim size, roundish oval. Skin smooth, pale green, yel-lowish at matuiity, slightly dotted with gray. Flesh melting, buttery,with a sweet perfumed flavor. January to Api-il. , town of Brighton, N. Y. A chance seedling on the farm of. Eliphalet Edmonds. Tree a strong grower,reddish bro\vn, with laige spots. Fruit large, obovate obtuse pyriform. 48 Young shoots yellowishSiuface uneven, yellow, 754 THE PEAR. bronzed red in sun, and slight nettings of russet and russet dots. Stalilong, inclined, ciirved, fleshy at insertion. Cavity broad, open. Segments short, erect. Basin abrupt, corrugated. Fleshfine-grained, whitish, juicy, half melting, sweet, with a peculiar good. September. Edward Morrek. A foreign variety, the origin of which we have not traced. Treexagoi-ous and productive. Young wood rich brownish olive. Fruit small, roundish, greenish, with brownish cheek, sprinkled withgreen and brown dots. Stalk long. Cavity small, often a lip at baseof stem. Calyx open. Basin shallow. Flesh white, juicy, half melt-ing, sweet, pleasant. Good to very good. November. Edwards. Raised by Governor Edwards. A very good baking fruit. Fruit medium, obovate obtuse py
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