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48. BEQUESNE. 



This is a large and long pear, full and round at 

 the blossom end, and diminishing gradually to a point 

 at the stem, which is very long the skin is yellow, 

 full of very distinct dark dots; little or no hollow at the 

 crown; the flesh is firm and without any great degree 

 of flavour or juice: it is however, a cooking fruit of 

 great excellence, it requires little or no sugar when 

 baked is rich, melting, and luscious, it keeps well 

 through the winter. 



49. ROYALE D'HYVER, OB WINTER ROYAL. 



This is a very large pear, of a pyriform shape, 

 much swelled at the blossom end, and diminished to- 

 wards the stalk in such a manner as to exhibit a tri- 

 angular figure when viewed in profile the skin is 

 smooth and fine, a handsome red towards the sun, 

 yellow on the shady side, spotted with little dots on 

 the red, and russet spots on the yellow the flesh is 

 half breaking, melting, of a yellowish cast, the juice 

 very saccharine ; the eye is very small, and planted 

 very deep the stalk long, and large at the extremity; 

 the time of ripening is from December to February; 

 hi the appearance of this pear and the Muscat Alle, 



