OLD PEARS. CLASS I. 119 



(|) POIRE SANS PEAU. Skinless. (Q.) 



A small, oblong pear ; the skin is smooth and thin, of a 

 pale green, slightly colored with red next the sun; the 

 flesh half melting, of a sweet and pleasant flavor. A good 

 fruit, but the wood begins to canker. August. (M.) 



PARFUM D'AOUT. August Perfume, (q.) Middle August. 



CHER A DAME. Prince's Pear. (84) (q.) 



FIN OR D'ETE. Fine Gold of Summer. Middle August. 



EPINE ROSE. Thorny Rose. Summer Rose, (q.) 



SALVIATI. (Q.) August. 



ORANGE MUSQEE. (Q-.) (q.) 



ORANGE ROUGE. Red Orange. (Q-|) (q*) 



[R. 2.] ROBINE. Royale tf&e. Royal Summer. (Q.) 



(q-) (84) 



SANGCINOLE. Bloody Pear. (Q-) (q.) 



BON CHRETIEN D'ETE MUSQUE. Musk Summer Bon 



Chretien. (M 4 ) (Q.) 

 GROS ROUSSELET. Roi d'Ete. (Q.) (q.) 

 POIRE D'CEup. Egg Pear. Swan's Egg of For. and 



Coxe. (84) 



CASSOLETTE. Lechefriand. (Q.) (q.) 

 GRISE-BONNE. Last of August. 

 MUSCAT ROYALE. Beginning of September. 

 JARGONELLE of Rosier and the French. Quisse Madame 



of the English and Americans. 



^ This last name has been applied to another fruit ; both 

 are called bad. (Q..J.) (84) 



4. ROUSSELET HATIF of Coxe. 



Very small, but much admired as a very early fruit. 

 The tree produces most extraordinary crops every year. 

 Stalk long, fleshy, and curved ; color russety yellow, 

 juicy, and excellent. Early in August. 



5. [R. 4.] ROUSSELET DE RHEIMS. Petit Rousselet. 

 The fruit is small, pyriform ; the eye is large, and even 



with the surface ; the stalk ten lines, the fruit twenty-seven 

 lines, and twenty in its transverse diameter ; greenish yellow 

 in the shade, brownish red next the sun; the flesh half 

 melting, musky, very perfumed ; excellent to put in 



