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Tery pleafant, by an aromatic and fweet tafte being com- 

 bintd. It ripened the beginning of 0(7«/^cr 1764. There 

 is a Summer Pear of this name, with a long ftalk, which 

 is tar interior to this in gcodncls. The tree thrives well, 

 and bears tolerablv. 



No. 16. Vicar is an oblong Pear, produced to the 

 flaik, which is long and ftraight. Its colour is yellow, 

 red, and f^riped : its flcfh is tender, fweet, and mufked, 

 but is rather too dry. This Pear ripened the middle of 

 O^cbsr I 762. The tree grows regularly, and has nu- 

 merous branches, which are furroumted uith very fertile 

 fpurs ; bv means of which it is a conflant and great 

 bearer. This tree is fometimes deftrcyed by too intenfe 

 heat. 



No. 17. Autumn, or Englip Bergamot (Pyrus fruflu 

 felfile, faciharato, odorato, in ore liquefcente^ TouRK. 

 Ln Bergamottc, QuiNT.) is a large round Pear, general- 

 ly flattened a little towards the eye, and fomewl.at de- 

 prefled to the foot ftalk, which is fhort and thick. It is 

 of an iron-green and yellow colour: its flefh is tender, 

 and full oi juice, of a delicious fweetnefs, and an agree- 

 able perfume. '! his Pear ripened the middle of OBoher 

 I'jbiy on a fouth-eafl afpecStcd wall. The tree is neither 

 fit for being tiained as a dwarf or efpatier, but makes a 

 beautiful ftandard or wall-tree, and is a plentiful bearer. 

 No. 18. Muir-fo'vjl-egg is a large Pear, which is near- 

 ly round, being only a little flattened tov/ards the eye, 

 which is fomewhat deprefled : but it is finely rounded oft* 

 to the ftalk, which is long, large, and generally crook- 

 ed. Its colour is red, green, and yellow; its flelli is 

 tender and juicy : it is reckoned delicious by tho!e who 

 are fond of much acid in Pears ; for my part, I think it 

 over-abounds in this fruit. It wa"^ ripe the middle o\ 

 Oclcber 1762. The tree grows vigoroufly, producing 

 many long branches, which are thinly pl.iccd in its head : 

 they are in lime covered with fpurt, which bear copiouf- 

 ly when the tree is old. 



No. 19. Gray Good-Wife is a Pear of a middling fize, 

 which might be reckoned round, were not its eye a little 

 deprefled, and its fliape a little protruded towards the 

 flalk, uhieh is of a modcrnte leng'h and thicknefs : it is 

 of a brown red on the one fide, and of a grecnifli yellow 



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