The tree is vigorous, and a great and constant bearer, suitable for a standard or a pyramid. Fruit - three and a half to four inches in length, and about two inches in diameter at the widest part, near the eye; and it is nearly as thick toward the stalk, which is short, thick, and obliquely inserted. Skin - yellow. Flesh - white, coarse, juicy, sweet, and agreeably perfumed. This Pear somewhat resembles the Beurre Bosc but it is smaller, and so deformed that it has received from us the name of Poire Andouille, that being the form which it generally assumes. Were it not rather gritty it would be an excellent dessert fruit; but it would furnish a good supply throughout the season by being dried in the oven. We have tasted the fruit fresh from the tree in the middle of September, its usual period of maturity, and at the same time fruits of the previous year, dried in the oven, and still very excellent. We received this excellent variety from the Abbe Canet, commune de Montigne, near Montfaucon (Maine-et-Loire), who had cultivated it for fifteen years. He obtained it from the nurseries of M. Langlois, at La Brulais, near Beaupreau, which were soon given up.

M. Canet had no name for the fruit, nor had he seen the variety in his neighborhood. [From the above description, it is very probable that the variety in, question is the common Calebasse, not the Calebasse Bosc or Beurre Bosc, to which, however, it has externally a resemblance. The common Calebasse is an extraordinary bearer, and on this account it is grown in some places near London; but if it should prove the same as the Andouille, it appears that it would be valuable for drying].