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•water can hardly be given. The flowers are delightfully fragrant, and render the 

 atmosphere of the house exceedingly pleasant and inviting. — M. Saul, Stourton. 



THE DURANDEAU PEAR. 



HIS fine autumn Pear bears the synonym of De Tongres. Its fruit are large 

 obtusely-pyriform, and of tolerably regular outline. In the smaller 

 specimens it tapers to the stalk, like the Beurre Bosc, whilst in the larger 

 ones the stalk is inserted a little on one side. The skin is of a warm 

 cinnamon-russet throughout, with numerous grey dots, exactly resembling Beurre 



Bosc, but having a flesh of bright crimson on the exposed side. The skin is 

 smooth and shining on the surface, but very rough and uneven underneath. Eye 

 small, open, set in a shallow cavity. Stalk, about an inch long. Flesh white, 

 rather coarse and granular, but melting, juicy, and of a most agreeable, rich acid 

 flavour, very pleasant to the palate. 



