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streaks on the side next the sun. When well rip- 

 ened, it is high-flavoured, and very juicy. The 

 tree grows freely in ordinary garden soils, and will 

 thrive and bear better in light land than most other 

 pears. 



2. Cressane. — This is an excellent fruit, and es- 

 teemed tlie best of the bergamots. It is very high- 

 flavoured when fully ripened ; of a roundish, mo- 

 derate size, and greyish colour, and full of small 

 brown specks. Of the bergamots, it is the best: 

 keeper, though none of them keep long. In order 

 to have it in perfection, it requires a good v/all, the 

 full sun, and a good loamy soil. 



3. Colmar. — This is a long, large fruit, of a rich 

 flavour, when fully matured ; but for tliat purpose 

 it requires the very best soils and situations, parti- 

 cularly in the northern parts of Britain ; and it is 

 even but in the best of seasons that it attains to 

 perfection. Its colour is then a greenish yellow. 

 Generally speaking, it cannot be called a great bear- 

 er, but it is a good keeper. 



4. Beurre de Roy; Brown Beurre-y or, Red 

 Beurrt^ — (denominations which perhaps depend on 

 the colour of the soil in which the tree may grow.) 

 It is an excellent fruit ; high-flavoured, large, and 

 rather longish than round. The tree is a pretty 

 free grower, but requires both a good soil and cli- 

 mate, and likewise a good wall. 



5. Swan Egg. — A good fruit, and in tolerably 

 good soil, a great bearer. It is a late pear, and a 

 pretty good keeper. Egg-shaped, and greenish. 



6- Avtiimn Bergamot — A very good, high-flavour- 



