The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . fruit. Young shoots dark yellow olive,diverging. Fruit large, obovate or oblong pyriform. Skin thick, rough, green,nearly covered with dark russet. Flesh hard and coarse, but stews andbakes well. ISTovember to February. THE PEAR. 703 Blanquet Anasterque. Blanquet dAustrasia. A French Pear, of poor quality. Fruit small, pyriform, yellowish green, with a tinge of brown in JbheL. Flesh white, coarse, breaking, rots easily. August. Large Bleeckers Meadow. Butter. Meadow A native fruit, sa
The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . fruit. Young shoots dark yellow olive,diverging. Fruit large, obovate or oblong pyriform. Skin thick, rough, green,nearly covered with dark russet. Flesh hard and coarse, but stews andbakes well. ISTovember to February. THE PEAR. 703 Blanquet Anasterque. Blanquet dAustrasia. A French Pear, of poor quality. Fruit small, pyriform, yellowish green, with a tinge of brown in JbheL. Flesh white, coarse, breaking, rots easily. August. Large Bleeckers Meadow. Butter. Meadow A native fruit, said to have been found in a meadow in Pennsylvaaia. It is a handsome, hardy fruit, and bears large crops, but it hasbeen overpraised as to quality. Fruit small, roundish. Skin bright clear yellow, with crimson dotson the sunny side. Flesh very white, firm, with a peculiar musky orwasp-like aroma and spicy taste, but mostly remains crisp and straight and stiff, Basin shallow. Calyx open and October and Bloodgood. Bloodgood is the highest flavored of all early Pears, and de- 704 THE PEAK. serves a place even in the smallest garden. It was named from the cixcumstance of its having been brought into notice, about 1835, by thelate James Bloodgood, nurseryman. Flushing, L. I. The sort wasbrought to that nursery as a new variety, without a name, however, bysome person on Long Island, unknown to Mr. B., who was never ableafterward to trace its history further. The tree is rather short-jointed,with deep reddish brown wood, grows moderately fast, and bears earlyand regularly. The fruit, like that of all early pears, is better if j-ipen-ed in the house. It surpasses every European variety of the same sea-son, and together with the Dearborns Seedling, another native sort, wilsupplant all inferior early pears. Fruit of medium size, turbinate, inclining to obovate, thickening veryabruptly into the stalk. Skin yellow, sprinkled w
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