PEARS. 225 



bloom upon it, and a slight tinge of red when fully exposed 

 to the sun. Flesh white, melting, buttery, sweet, and high 

 flavoured. 



Ripe the latter part of July. 



This is said to have received its name from its ripening 

 about the time of the Fete de Sainte Magdalene (22d July.) 

 I have not quoted the figure of the Madeline, or Citron des 

 Carmes, of Duhamel, because it does not appear to be what 

 the French now consider the Madeline. 



26. MANSUETTE. Duhamel, No. 92. t. 58. f. 1, 

 Solitaire. Ib. 



Mansuette Solitaire. Jard. Fruit, t. 43. 



Fruit pretty large, of a somewhat turbinate figure, com- 

 pressed below the middle, and a little incurved towards the 

 stalk ; about three inches and three quarters long, and two 

 inches and three quarters in diameter. Eye rather small, 

 with an erect calyx, placed in a deep, plaited, angular basin. 

 Stalk an inch long, bent, very obliquely inserted in an irre- 

 gular cavity. Skin green, spotted with brown; but as it 

 ripens it becomes yellow and tinged with red. Flesh white, 

 half melting, and full of a well flavoured juice. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



This is better grafted on the Quince than on the Pear. 



27. MUSK SUMMER BONCHRETIEN. Nursery Cat. 



Bonchretien d'E'te Musque"e. Duhamel. No. 91. t. 48. 



Fruit above the middle size, somewhat pyramidal, com- 

 pressed between the middle and the stalk, about three inches 

 long, and two inches and a half in diameter. Eye rather 

 large and open, with a crisp calyx, placed in a wide, irregu- 

 lar, angular basin. Stalk one inch and a half long, enlarged 

 next the branch, and somewhat obliquely inserted with but 

 little cavity. Skin greenish yellow, with a little gray rus- 

 set ; but on the sunny side of a brownish red, full of rough 

 russetty specks. Flesh white and crisp, with an abundant, 

 sugary, high-flavoured musky juice. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



This does not succeed at all upon the Quince. 



It is sold by many nurserymen for the Summer Bonchre- 

 tien, a different Pear. The wood and manner of growth of 

 the Musk Bonchretien is a good deal like the Jargonelle ; 

 but the leaves of this are smooth at all times, in the Jargo- 

 nelle they are covered with a thick pubescent down, espe- 

 cially in the spring and early part of the summer months, 



.28. ORANGE TULIPEE, Duhamel^ No. 79. t. 41. 



