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anil it will be porceivdd that it also obtained its most popular 

 title from the circumstance of original locality. 



This variety can be ingi^fted on either the pear or the 

 quince. 



LOUISE BONNE. Pk. cat. Quin. Roz. Duh. Mil. For. 



Bonne Louise. I Avanckie. 



Good Louise. Evel. | Good Louis. 



This greatly resembles the St. Germain in form, and is also 

 nearly of the same size, but it is far from possessing as perfect 

 and excellent a flavour. It diflers from it besides in its skin, 

 which is of a very light green colour, and becomes whitish at 

 perfect maturity ; the dots with which it is covered over are 

 not dark, and they are so very small that they do not prevent 

 it from being smooth ; the flesh is half-melting, sometimes in- 

 sipid, at others possessing a partial musky odour, but when 

 the tree is planted in a cold and humid situation, the fruit often 

 has a mouldy taste ; the seeds are brown, well matured, and 

 pointed, and the period at which this pe9r ripens is in Novem- 

 ber and December. I received a pear under this title some 

 years since from England, which was much more of a turbi- 

 nate form, but deeming it erroneous, I have discontinued its 

 culture. 



POIRE A GOBERT. Roz. Duh. 



This fruit is thirty-three lines in height and thirty in diame- 

 ter, and its form is like that of a top ; the eye is placed in a 

 slight depression, and the stem, which is pretty large and of 

 moderate length, is inserted even with the extremity of the 

 fruit ; the skin is red next to the sun, and green on the shaded 

 side which becomes yellow in ripening ; the flesh is very white, 

 half-breaking, and musky ; the seeds are usually abortive and 

 the cells very small. This fruit will keep until the month of 

 June. 



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