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shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, fine-grained, buttery, and melting, of 

 a rich, sweet, and aromatic flavour, not unlike the Glou Mo^eau. 



An excellent dessert pear ; in use from January to March. Tree 

 vigorous and healthy, and an excellent bearer as a standard. Succeeds 

 well on the quince. 



Jeanette. See Amire Joannet. 



JERSEY GRATIOLI (Bedminster Gratioli; Gratioli de Jersey; 

 N orris's Pear). Fruit, above medium size; roundish obovate. Skin, 

 greenish yellow, covered with large, rough, russet spots, and tinged 

 with pale brown next the sun. Eye, open, set in an even, shallow 

 basin. Stalk, an inch long, in a narrow cavity. Flesh, yellowish 

 white, very melting, rich, sugary, and with a fine, sprightly, vinous 

 flavour. 



A dessert pear of the highest excellence ; ripe in October, and keeps 

 but a short time. "It blets suddenly," says Mr. Blackmore. The tree 

 is an excellent bearer as a standard, hardy, and vigorous. 



This variety is known in Jersey by the name of Gratioli, and under this name 

 it had for some years been grown by Mr. Norris, of Sion Hill, Isleworth ; but as 

 Gratioli is the Italian name of Bon Chretien d'Ete, to prevent confusion, Mr. 

 Robert Thompson named the present variety Jersey Gratioli. It must have been a 

 considerable time in this country, as there is a tree growing in the garden of H. M. 

 Bucknall, Esq., of Bedminster Lodge, near Bristol, which he considers (1856) to be 

 50 years old. I am indebted to Mr. Bucknall for grafts and specimens of the fruit. 

 I received grafts and specimens also from Mr. Norris, and I found that they are 

 both one variety. 



JEWESS (La Juive). Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half 

 wide, and three inches long ; pyramidal or roundish obovate. Skin, of 

 a uniform pale yellow colour, mottled with pale brown russet, and 

 thickly covered with russet dots. Eye, small and open, with short, 

 erect segments, even with the surface. Stalk, about an inch long, 

 stout, and tapering into the fruit, or obliquely inserted. Flesh, 

 yellowish, buttery, and melting, very juicy, sugary, and rich. 



A most delicious pear ; ripe in December. In 1867 it ripened in the 

 beginning of November, and was inferior in quality. Mr. Luckhurst 

 says that on the Weald of Sussex it is " of the highest excellence." 



This was raised by Major Esperen, of Malines, and first fruited in 1843. It 

 received its name from growing against a wall of his garden which bounded the 

 street called Rue des Juifs. 



Joannet. See Amire Joannet. 

 Johannisbirn. See Amire Joannet. 

 John. See Messire Jean. 



JOHN MONTEITH. Fruit, medium sized ; angular towards the eye, 

 somewhat four-sided at the eye. Skin, bright lively green, changing 

 as it ripens to yellowish green, a pale green. Eye, small, and half 



