PEARS. 221 



than that of a Pear ; and M. Noisette remarks, that it is so 

 iu a greater degree than any Pear he knows. It is a most 

 excellent and beautiful variety, and bears well on an open 

 standard. 



SECT. II. Summer. Conical-fruited. 



15. AUGUST MUSCAT. Miller, No. 20. 

 Aurate. Duhamel, No. 5. t. 2. 

 Muscat d'Aout. Ib. 



Fruit below the middle size, turbinate, compressed be- 

 tween the middle and the stalk. Eye small, open, a little 

 depressed in a flattish crown. Stalk an inch long, straight, 

 inserted in a somewhat oblique small cavity. Skin yellow, 

 with a light red on the sunny side. Flesh breaking, sugary, 

 and perfumed. 



Ripe the middle of August. 



This grows strong on the Pear ; middling on the Quince. 



16. CASSOLETTE. Miller, No. 17. Duhamel, No. 44. 

 t. 18. 



Friolet. Ib. 



Lechefrion. Ib. 



Muscat verd. Miller, No. 17. Duhamel, No. 44. t. 18. 



Poire de Sillerie. Knoop. Pom. p. 135. 



Verdasse. Ib. 



Fruit small, of a roundish turbinate figure, two inches and 

 a half long, and one inch and three-quarters in diameter. 

 Eye open in a slightly plaited basin. Stalk half an inch 

 long, thick, inserted in a hollow cavity. Skin yellowish 

 green, and marked with red on the sunny side. Flesh crisp 

 and tender, with a sugary, perfumed, musky juice. 



Ripe the middle and end of August. 



This succeeds equally well on both the Pear and the 

 Quince. 



17. CUISSE MADAME. Duhamel, No. 11. t. 5. 



Fruit middle-sized, of a longish pyramidal turbinate 

 figure, widest at the crown, and compressed between the 

 middle and the stalk, about two inches and three quarters 

 long, and two inches in diameter. Eye small, open with a 

 rounded calyx, seated in a slight depression, nearly flat. 

 Stalk one inch and a half long, straight, somewhat obliquely 

 inserted without any cavity. Skin smooth and shining all 

 round, of a yellowish green colour on the shaded side, but 

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