Identifier: annualreportoffr1904frui (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Fruit-culture Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
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Section of Ritson. 48 THE REPORT OF THE No. 17 SOUVENIR. (Souvenir du Congres). A very large, showy pear, but coarse in flesh and of ordinary quality. Single trees arefound in many Ontario fruit gardens, but so far we know of no orchards of this variety plantedfor profit. Hogg, the British pomologist, however, speaks of it more highly, as follows :—* Avery handsome and excellent pear ; ripe in the end of August and the beginning of September.It has a great resemblance to the Williams (Bartlett), but is quite a distinct fruit.
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Souvenir du Congres. Origin: France, by M. INIorel, of Lyon-Vaise, and dedicated to the PomologicaUCongressof France. Tree : Vigorous and productive, pyramidal. 1904 FRUIT EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 49 SOUVENIR (Souvenir du Congres). — Continued. Fruit: Very large, section photographed measured 4^ x S^ inches ; form oblong obovate,indulating in outline; color clear yellow ripe, with a red cheek and many brown dots ; stemf of an inch long, stout, much inclined, inserted without a cavity ; calyx large, open, set in adeep basin. Flesh : Color white ; texture tender, juicy, melting ; flavor rich, vinous, aromatic, some-what resembling that of Bartlett.

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