18 PEARS. 



GROS HASTIVEAU DE LA FORET. Pr. cat. Duh. 



Gros hativeau de laforet. 



Hativeau gros de la foret. Roz. Pr. cat. 25 ed. 

 Hativau de laforet. Lond. Hort. Soc. cat. 

 Large hativeau of the forest. 



This fruit is of the shape of a top, and is but eighteen to 

 twenty lines in lieight, by fifteen or sixteen in diameter, with 

 a large and short peduncle of only eight or nine lines in length. 

 Its skin at perfect maturity is whitish in the shade, and of a lively 

 red next the sun ; the flesh is white, breaking, rather dry and 

 very slightly acid, but of no peculiar flavour, and has nothing 

 to render it particularly desirable. The seeds are dark brown 

 and the fruit ripens about the middle of August. 



FINE GOLD OF SUMMER. Pk. cat. Coxe. 



Fin or d'Hi. Roz. Duh. Coxe. 



This fruit is of medium sixe, and turbinate form, somewhat 

 truncate at the end next the stem, which is sixteen lines in 

 length ; it is flattened at the base, and the eye is situated in 

 the centre of a small cavity. The skin is very smooth, of a 

 yellowish green, dotted over with red points on the shade side, 

 and of a deep and brilliant red next the sun ; the flesh is deli- 

 cate, greenish, half melting, a little acid, and very agreeable ; 

 the seeds are black and tolerably large, and the fruit matures 

 about the middle of August. I find by my own observations, 

 and those of my intelligent friend Robert Manning, Esq. of 

 Salem, Mass. that two other varieties of pears are erroneously 

 cultivated under this name in some nurseries, probably without 

 the knowledge of the proprietors. 



DOUBLE EYED PEAR. Auth. 

 Poire a deux yeux. N. Duh. 



This fruit greatly resembles both in form and in colour the 

 one usually called here the Jargonelle, which is the Epargne 



