The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . CATHERINE LAMBRE PEAR. Size, large, about two and three-quarters inches long, andtwo and a half in diameter: Form, turbinate, elongated, ta-pering to the stem, swollen on one side: Skin, fair, smooth;greenish yellow, broadly shaded and mottled with vermilionin the sun, and thickly dotted with bronzy red specks: Stem,medium length, about half an inch long, rather slender, andobliquely inserted on the tapering point: Ei/e, rather large, VOL. XXVIII.—NO. XI. 33 514 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. op
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . CATHERINE LAMBRE PEAR. Size, large, about two and three-quarters inches long, andtwo and a half in diameter: Form, turbinate, elongated, ta-pering to the stem, swollen on one side: Skin, fair, smooth;greenish yellow, broadly shaded and mottled with vermilionin the sun, and thickly dotted with bronzy red specks: Stem,medium length, about half an inch long, rather slender, andobliquely inserted on the tapering point: Ei/e, rather large, VOL. XXVIII.—NO. XI. 33 514 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. open, and slightly depressed in a very shallow basin ; segmentsof the calyx, short, stiff, incurved: Flesh, yellowish, fine,somewhat firm, yet melting, full of a brisk, sweet, slightlyflavored juice: Core, small: Seeds, rather small, sharplypointed, brown. Ripe in October and 19. WILLERMOZ PEAR. 223. WiLLERMOZ, Album dc Pomolog-ie, Vol. IV. In a small pamphlet describing several new and old pears,by M. J. de Liron dAriolcs, we find a description and figureof this pear, corresponding with our specimens ; but trees re-ceived from other sources have proved to be the Graslin. We NOVEMBER. 515 have also received it under the name of Poire Jacobs. TheWillcrmoz (fig. 19) from its appearance, size and quality,promises well, and if the bearing qualities and growth of thetree when better known, should sustain its present estimation,it will be deserving of general cultivation. In size it comesnearly or quite up to the Louise Bonne, resembling it in has not, so far, had so much color as the former, but itripens of a deep yellow tint. The tree grows vigorously, andM. dArioles says that it makes one of the most beautifulpyramids. It was introduced by M, Bivort, and is stated tobe one of the seedlings of Van Mons. Size, large, pyramidal, slightly contracted near
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