SUMMER PEARS. 337 



tht sun. Stalk short, thick, and fleshy. Calyx small, closed, 

 basin very slightly sunk. Flesh white, melting, very juicy, 

 sweet, with a little acid, and of excellent flavour. It ripens at 

 the last of July and beginning of August. The tree bears abun- 

 dantly, but is quite different from the Doyenne in its growth. 

 M. Poiteau remarks that this pear has been cultivated for many 

 years at Nantes, though, till lately, little known in Paris. 



14. GREEN CHISEL. Thomp. Fors. Lind. 



Green Sugar. ) of some English 

 Sugar. $ gardens. 



A pleasant old English pear, but not at all comparable with 

 the new early sorts already described. The shoots grow quite 

 erect, and the fruit is borne in clusters. 



Fruit small, nearly round, tapering a little to the stalk. Skin 

 quite green, with, occasionally, a dull brown cheek at full matu- 

 rity. Stalk straight, three-fourths of an inch long, set almost 

 without depression. Calyx open, crumpled, rather large. 

 Flesh juicy, a little gritty in texture, with a sweet and pleasant 

 flavour. Ripe the middle of August. This is quite distinct 

 from the Madeleine, an obwate pear, with which it is sometimes 

 confounded. " 



15. HESSEL. Thomp. 

 Hazel. 



A Scotch pear, enormously productive, pretty, and of agree- 

 able flavour, though it lasts only a few days in perfection. Tree 

 with weeping branches. 



Fruit rather below medium size, obovate. Skin yellowish- 

 green, strongly marked with numerous dots, which give it a 

 brownish, freckled appearance. Stalk an inch long, obliquely 

 inserted. Calyx small, set in a shallow basin. Flesh whitish, 

 juicy, with a pleasant, sugary flavour. First of September. 



16. JARGONELLE, (of the English.) Thomp. Lind. P. Mag. 



Epargne. O. Duh. Pad. Pom. Man. 



Grosse Cuisse Madame. "| 



Beau Present. j of various Frauenschenkel. 



Poire de tables des princes. > French. Real Jargonelle. 



Saint Sampson. gardens. Sweet Summer. 



Saint Lambert. j 



This fruit, the true Jargonelle pear,* was for a long time 

 considered the finest of Summer pears, and Thompson yet says 



* Although called by Thompson the English Jargonelle, to distinguish it from 

 the fruit more common under that name on the continent, there is no doubt that 



