SUMMER PEARS. 



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The common CUISSE MADAME of the French authors and 

 gardens, is an inferiour and smaller variety of Jargonelle, not 

 worth cultivating. It has long, straight, rather slender, brown- 

 ish-red branches, while the true Jargonelle has long straggling, 

 dangling branches. The blossoms of the latter are also un- 

 usually large. [See also Windsor Pear.] 



17. JARGONELLE, (of the French.) Thomp. 



Bellisime d'Ete. O. Duh. Nois. 

 Supreme. ~| 



Bellissime Supreme. 1 of French 

 Bellisime Jargonelle, f gardens. 

 Verraillion d'Ete. J 



Red Muscadel. Lind. Mill 

 Sabine d'Ete. 



Summer Beauty. Pom. Man. 

 English Red Cheek. ) of many Ame- 

 Red Cheek. J rican gardens. 



This, which Mr. Thompson calls, by way of distinction, the 

 French Jargonelle, because it is most commonly received under 

 that name from France, is a higher coloured and handsomer 

 fruit than the English Jargonelle, though much inferiour in 

 quality, and, in fact, lasts only a day or two in perfection, and 

 is often mealy and over-ripe, while the exteriour is fair and 

 tempting. It has a bright red cheek, and a shorter obovate 

 form, blunt at the stalk. 



The tree is of very strong, upright growth. Fruit of me- 

 dium size, obovate in form. Skin shining, light green, becom- 

 ing lemon colour, with a very rich, deep red cheek. Stalk 



about an inch long, 

 rather stiff and stout, and 

 set in a blunt depression. 

 Calyx in a shallow, 

 slightly irregular basin. 

 Flesh white, coarse, 

 breaking, sweet, and soon 

 rots at the core. Ripens 

 the last of July and first 

 of August. 



18. JULIENNE. Coxe. 

 Man. 



A handsome summer 

 pear, which so much re- 

 sembles the Doyenne or 

 St. Michael, as to be 

 called, by some, the Sum- 

 mer St. Michael. It is a 

 beautiful and most pro- 

 ductive fruit, and comes 

 into bearing very early. 

 Rg. 137. Julienne. ft f s often of excellent 



