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melting, of excellent flavour, but liable, if not picked early, to 

 rot at the core. Beginning of September. 



129. HENRY THE FOURTH. Lind. 



Henri Quatre. Thomp. 

 Jacquin. 



This little pear, perhaps not very attractive in appearance, 

 being small, and of a dull colour, is one of our greatest favour- 

 ites as a dessert fruit. It always bears well otten too abun- 

 dantly and the very melting fruit abounds with delicious, high 



Fig. 172. Henry IV. 



flavoured juice. Every good collection of pears should com- 

 prise it. The tree is hardy, and the branches, very thick of 

 foliage, are a little pendant. Young shoots diverging, yellow- 

 ish-brown. 



Fruit below medium size, roundish-pyriform. Skin pale 

 greenish-yellow, dotted with small gray specks. Stalk rather 

 more than an inch long, slender, bent, and obliquely planted on a 

 slightly flattened prominence, or under a swollen lip. Calyx 

 small, placed in a shallow, abrupt basin. Flesh whitish, not 

 very fine grained, but unusually juicy and melting, with a rich, 

 delicately perfumed flavour. It should always be ripened in 

 the house. Early in September. 



