NOTES ON SOME VARIETIES OF, PEARS. 101 
long and woody, inserted in a small round cavity, stout and slightly 
curved. Eye small and half-open, with short incurved segments, and 
set quite level with the surface of the fruit, ^ Flesh yellow, coarse- 
grained and gritty, half-melting or crisp, and mies W juicy. Juice 
charged with a cold acidity, and without much flavour 
This is only a ud rate pear, indeed | hardi even second-rate, 
but a coarse and rather Зак тете: that rots: at. the.core in the 
middle and end of October. 
