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small ridges ; the skin is light yellow, dotted over with \ery 

 small russet points, and sometimes marked with a little red on 

 the sunny side ; the flesh is breaking and of a very agreeable 

 musk flavour ; the seeds are brown, and the fruit ripens at the 

 end of August. 



SALVIATI DE PROVENCE. N. Dun. 



This fruit is of a turbinate form, which in some cases 

 assumes that of a spheroid somewhat flattened ; it is usually 

 twenty-nine or thirty lines in diameter, and twenty-four to 

 twenty-six in height, with a short stem inserted in a depression 

 scarcely perceptible, and the eye is situated in a wide cavity 

 with a smooth border around it. The skin is entirely of a 

 lemon colour, dotted over with small fawn-coloured or grayish 

 specks ; the flesh is firm, breaking, and of a sweet and musky 

 flavour. The seeds are light brown, and the fruit ripens in 

 August. Duhamel states that he received it under the name 

 of Muscat-Jleuri, which is a very different fruit, and that from 

 its great resemblance to the Salviati, he gave it the title here 

 adopted. 



ROBINE. EvEL. Roz. Dun. Pit. cat. 



Royal summer. Pr. cat. 25 ed. 



Royale (V^te. Roz. syn. Duh. syn. 



Rohine, Averat, Poire Roy ale, Muscat d^aout. Quin. 



Averat, Pear Royal, Muscat pear of August. Evel. 



Avorat. For. 



Avorat, Rohine, Muscat d'aouH, Auaust muscat, > •■ ,.. 



Poire d' Aver it, Averat pear, Poire royale. Royal Pear, ^ ' ' 



This pear has the form of a top, and its height, which is 

 nearly equal to its diameter, is but twenty-two lines ; the eye 

 is placed in a cavity which is pretty deep and very wide, and 

 the stem may rather be considered as surrounded by protube- 

 rances or swellings than as placed in a depression ; the skin 

 is whitish green, speckled with brownish green, and becomes 

 yellow at maturity ; the flesh is half-breaking, rather dry, and 



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