PEARS, 



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a little bent. Skin smooth, greenish yellow, and full of 

 small gray specks. Flesh tender, with a rich, sugary, and 

 perfumed juice. 



Ripe the middle of September. 



This Pear was brought from France soon after the Re- 

 storation, and planted in the Royal Gardens in St. James's 

 Park. It is a very good pear, but will not keep long. 



2. BERGAMOTTE ROUGE. Duhamel, No. 46. t. 19. f. 6. 

 Fruit below the middle size, shortly turbinate, about two 



inches deep, and two and a quarter inches in diameter. 

 Eye rather flat. Stalk half an inch long, thick, and inserted 

 in a small cavity. Skin pale yellow, but of a red colour on 

 the sunny side. Flesh soft, melting, and full of a sugary 

 and highly-flavoured juice. 



Ripe the middle of September. 



This succeeds on both the quince and the pear stock. 



3. EARLY BERGAMOT. Pom. J\Iag. t. 101. 



Fruit middle-sized, roundish, flattened, depressed at the 

 eye, towards which it is slightly angular, about two and a half 

 inches long, and two and three-quarters inches in diameter. 

 Stalk one and a quarter inch long, moderately thick, insert- 

 ed in a shallow cavity. Skin green, with a tinge of yellow 

 when ripe, with a few faint streaks of brownish red on the 

 sunny side. Flesh yellowish white, very juicy, a little crisp 

 and gritty, but very rich and sugary. 



Ripe the end of August and beginning of September. 



This Pear was sent into this country by the late M. 

 Thouin, to the Horticultural Society, in 1820, where its pre- 

 sent name has originated. It is a most excellent variety of 

 its season, bears abundantly as an open standard, and de- 

 serves cultivation. 



4. EARLY ROUSSELET. Nursery Catalogues. 

 Rousselet Hatif. Duhamel, No. 33. 

 Perdreau. Ib. 



Poire de Chypre. Ib. 



Fruit rather small, of a somewhat turbinate figure, about 

 two inches long, and nearly the same in diameter. Eye 

 small, and sunk in a shallow basin. Stalk one inch long. 

 Skin smooth, yellow, of a lively red, with several gray 

 specks interspersed on the sunny side. Flesh tender, with 

 an agreeable sugary perfumed Juice. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of August. 



This succeeds on the quince as well as the pear stock. 



.5. FONDANTE DE BREST. Duhamel, No. 43. t. 17. 

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