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turbinate. Skin, smooth and shining, pale lively green, changing to 

 yellowish green as it ripens, and covered with dark red next the sun, 

 covered with numerous russety dots and a few patches of russet. 

 Eye, open, with short dry segments, set in a shallow depression. 

 Stalk, about an inch long, stout, and inserted in a small cavity. 

 Flesh, whitish, juicy, and melting, with a fine aromatic and rose-water 

 flavour. 



Kipe in the beginning of August. The tree is vigorous and hardy, 

 a good bearer, and succeeds well as a standard. 



The Summer Rose is also called Ognonnet. 



Summer Bell. See Windsor. 



SUMMER BERGAMOT. Fruit, small ; roundish. Skin, yellowish 

 green, with brown red next the sun. Eye, set in a wide and shallow 

 depression. Stalk, an inch long, inserted in a narrow cavity. Flesh, 

 juicy, sweet, and well-flavoured, and soon becomes mealy. 



A dessert pear of very ordinary merit ; ripe in August. 



This is not the Summer Bergamot of Miller and Forsyth, but is what is grown 

 in the nurseries about London under that name. 



SUMMER BEURRE D 1 AREMBERG. Fruit, small, two inches 

 wide and the same high ; turbinate, even and smooth in its outline. 

 Skin, entirely covered with a thin crust of cinnamon-coloured russet. 

 Eye, wanting segments, very deeply set in a narrow hole. Stalk, long, 

 stout, and fleshy, curved and inserted without depression. Flesh, 

 yellowish, very buttery, tender, melting, and very juicy, sweet, richly 

 flavoured, and with a musky aroma. 



An excellent pear, which ripens in the middle of September. 



It was raised by Mr. Bivers, of Sawbridgeworth, and was sent to me in 1863, the 

 first year in which it produced fruit. 



SUMMER BON CHRETIEN (Florence d'Ete ; Gratioli ; Gratioli 

 di Ptfma ; Saffran d'Ete). Fruit, large ; pyriform, very irregular and 

 bossed in its outline. Skin, yellow, with a tinge of pale red next the 

 sun, and strewed with green specks. Eye, small, set in an uneven, 

 shallow basin. Stalk, two inches and a half long, curved, and 

 obliquely inserted in a knobbed cavity. Flesh, yellow, crisp, juicy, 

 sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. 



An inferior fruit ; ripe in September. The tree is tender, subject to 

 canker, and requires a wall to bring the fruit to maturity. If grown as 

 a bush tree, the fruit is good for culinary purposes. 



SUMMER CRASANNE (Crasanne d'Ete) .Fruit, small ; roundish, 

 and flattened. Skin, pale yellow, entirely covered with cinnamon- 

 coloured russet. Eye, wide open, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, an inch 

 and a half long. Flesh, half-melting, very juicy, sweet, and aromatic. 



A good early pear ; ripe in the end of August and beginning of 

 September. 



