338 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



Chronicle^ and he remarks that " it requires particular man- 

 agement after gathering. It has a thick, tough, softly rus- 

 seted skin, which appears to permit occasionally a too rapid 

 evaporation of the juices, in consequence of which the flesh 

 does not become melting, but actually the reverse, until it 

 finally decays. To prevent this, it is necessary to pack the 

 fruit away from the free action of the air." 



The tree grows very vigorously, with upright brown shoots, 

 sprinkled with brown russet specks, and is very productive : 

 the fruit all have a remarkably clean skin, free from specks. 

 It grows freely, and bears well on the quince. Our descrip- 

 tion of the Figue de Naples {fig. 26), is as follows : — 



Fig. 26. Fiffue de Naples. 



Size, large, about two and a half inches in diameter, and 

 three long : Form, oblong, slightly contracted in the middle, 



