Chapter LVI: Section 2: Sour

SUB-SECTION 3.--RUSSET.

=Bourrassa.=

Foreign. Said to do well in the North; have seen it handsome at Detroit.

Fruit medium, oblong, ovate, somewhat angular and ribbed; Surface yellow, covered lightly with a rich red russet, giving it an orange hue.

Basin small; Eye small, closed; Segments very long.

Cavity deep, acute, wavy; Stem long.

Flesh white or stained, tender; Flavor acid, spicy, aromatic; Quality pretty good, but apt to be tough and wilted; Season, November to December.

Not worth trying in the South.

FOOTNOTES:

[49] Vide Horticulturist for 1861 p. 40.

[50] Fall Butter, on page 677, belongs here.

[51] See page 670.