. Descriptive catalogue of fruits. Nursery stock Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. CA TALOG UE OF FR UITS. 21 Bonne clu Puits Ansault (Leroy '65)—Medium size; melting, juicy, and very fine grained; one of the finest in quality of all pears, superior to Seckel. Tree a poor grower, which necessitates top grafting in order to obtain good standard trees. Bears when quite young. Price $ each. BONNE DU PUITS ANSAULT. Duhamel du Monceau (Andre Leroy '65)—Large, long pyriform, skin rather rough, nearly covered with brownish russet, flesh melting, juicy, with the flavor o
. Descriptive catalogue of fruits. Nursery stock Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. CA TALOG UE OF FR UITS. 21 Bonne clu Puits Ansault (Leroy '65)—Medium size; melting, juicy, and very fine grained; one of the finest in quality of all pears, superior to Seckel. Tree a poor grower, which necessitates top grafting in order to obtain good standard trees. Bears when quite young. Price $ each. BONNE DU PUITS ANSAULT. Duhamel du Monceau (Andre Leroy '65)—Large, long pyriform, skin rather rough, nearly covered with brownish russet, flesh melting, juicy, with the flavor of Winter Nelis; a delicious pear. Tree a moderate growev. November, De- cember. Eiig'ene Appert (Andre Leroy '65)—Medium size; flesh melting, sweet, perfumed; a delicious pear, flavor of Gransel's Bergamot. A moderate grower as a stand- ard. Does not succeed so well on the quince. October. Frederick Clapp—We are indebted to the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder for the fol- lowing description: "Form generally obovate, but somewhat variable; size above medium; skin thin, smooth and fair, clear lemon yellow; flesh fine grained, very juicy and melting, flavor sprightly, acidulous, rich and aromatic; season October 15th to November 1st, remaining sound at core to the last; quality wry good to best, and will be highly esteemed by those who like acidulous pears. It has been exhibited for many years by the originators, Messrs. F. & L. Clapp, of Dorchester, Mass. Of this pear the committee of the Massachusetts Hor- ticultural Society have reported favorably for years. Of its quality they state in 1873, 'It. was pronounced decidedly superior to Beurre Superfin, and is re- garded by all who have seen it as the highest bred and most refined of all the many seedlings shown by Messrs. Clapp.' It is probably a cross between Beurre Superfin and Urbaniste, the tree resembling in habit the latter variety, and may safely be commended as worthy of trial by all cultivators of the
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