The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . ling out inthe middle, and diminishing at both ends, obtuse at the stem,which is one inch long; eye small, deeply sunk, around it aresome ridges or swellings; skin yellow, with red cheek, spot-ted with dark points; flesh rich, juicy, and excellent. RipeOct. 4ih. thirty-nine varieties of Pears. 59 15. Queen of the Low Countries (from Van Mons.)—Ofthe very largest size, oblong, round, and large at the blossomend, decreasing suddenly to an obtuse or sharp point at thestem, which is an inch and a q
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . ling out inthe middle, and diminishing at both ends, obtuse at the stem,which is one inch long; eye small, deeply sunk, around it aresome ridges or swellings; skin yellow, with red cheek, spot-ted with dark points; flesh rich, juicy, and excellent. RipeOct. 4ih. thirty-nine varieties of Pears. 59 15. Queen of the Low Countries (from Van Mons.)—Ofthe very largest size, oblong, round, and large at the blossomend, decreasing suddenly to an obtuse or sharp point at thestem, which is an inch and a quarter long; color fine dark redand on the shaded side dull yellow and green with russet spots,especially round the eye, which is deeply sunk, extremelysmall and naked; flesh white, juicy, very melting and excel-lent. Ripe Oct. 4th. Van Mons describes this pear as fol-lows, very large, very beautiful and good, and without anyquestion, the most perfect of pears. \_Fig. 1, is an engrav-ing of this pear. Owing to a mistake of the engraver, thestem is loo short by one quarter of an inch.—JEJ.] 1. Queen of the Low Countries Pear. 16. Great Citron Pear of Bohemia (from Baumann of Bol-willer.)—Large, oblong, yellow, spotted and tinged with redon the side of the sun; stem one inch long; Hesh sugary,juicy and very fine. Ripe Sept. 30th. 60 Pomological Motices.—Kotices of 17. Croft —Size small, skin yellow, with russetspots; flesh extremely high flavored and good. Ripe in No-vember. The scions were given me by the late Mr. Lowell. 18. Dnndas (Van Mons.)—Medium size, obovate, yellowand brilliant ^red, surface uneven, spotted with dark points;stem one inCh long; eye very deep in a wide cavity; fleshsweet between breaking and melting, good, very Oct. 10(h. 19. Doyenne Boussouek (from Vilmorin.)—Obovate, me-dium size, russet, sweet, good. Ripe Oct. 20th. 20. Beurre J^elll (from Van Mons.)—Very large, oblong,obtuse at the stem, greenish yellow, and light
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