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connected with the fruit by a fleshy protuberance. Flesh, juicy, sweet, 

 and perfumed. 



A dessert pear ; ripe in October. The tree is a most abundant and 

 regular bearer, and succeeds well as a standard. 



This is a seedling raised by Mr. T. A. Knight. 



CROSS. Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a half wide, and 

 two inches high ; Bergamot-shaped. Skin, smooth, of an uniform 

 golden colour, sprinkled with many russet dots and patches of russet, 

 and with a red blush next the sun. Eye, small and open, rather deeply 

 set. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, stout, and inserted in a 

 small round cavity. Flesh, white, very tender, buttery, and melting, 

 with a pleasant brisk flavour. 



Of second quality ; ripe in November and December. 

 This is an American pear, raised by Mr. Cross, at Newburyport, Massachusetts. 



Cueillette. See Jargonelle. 



Cueillette d'Hiver. See Vicar of Winkfield. 



CUISSE MADAME (Poire de Rives; De Fusee; Lady's Buttock; 

 Lady's Thigh; Kiss Madam). Fruit, medium sized ; pyriform. Skin, 

 smooth and glossy, pale green, changing to yellowish green on the 

 shaded side, and of a fine dark clear russet next the sun, and covered 

 with numerous reddish green dots next the sun, and dark green in the 

 shade. Eye, open, with small short segments, set in a slight depression. 

 Stalk, an inch and a half long, fleshy at the base, and inserted without 

 depression. Flesh, whitish, crisp, juicy, sweet, and with a musky 

 flavour. 



A dessert pear ; ripe in August. Tree succeeds well as a standard ; 

 it bears but indifferently when young, but as it becomes aged it is more 

 fertile. 



Culot. See Donville. 



Culotte de Suisse. See Verte Longue Panachee. 



Cure . See Vicar of Winkfield. 



GUSHING-. Fruit, medium sized ; obovate, tapering rather ob- 

 liquely to the stalk. Skin, smooth, light greenish yellow, sprinkled 

 with small grey dots and occasionally with a dull red cheek. Eye, 

 rather small, set in a basin of moderate size. Flesh, white, fine- 

 grained, buttery, melting, sweet, sprightly, and perfumed. Downing. 



An early pear of good reputation in America. 



Cypress. See Early Rousselet. 



DANA'S HOVEY. Fruit, small, two inches wide, and two and a 

 quarter long ; obovate and regular in its outline. Skin, greenish yel- 

 low, becoming quite yellow when fully ripened, dotted and veined with 



