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whence Merlet infers tliat the Jargonelle was the Fyrum Ta- 

 rentinum of Cato and Columella, the Numidianum Gracum 

 of Pliny, and the Graculum of Macrobius. If this conjecture 

 be well founded, the kind to which the name belongs will be 

 one of the most ancient in cultivation. 



This fruit has great affinity to the Aurate, but is rather 

 larger, more oblong, and pyriform ; it is twenty-two lines in 

 height, and eighteen in diameter ; the skin is perfectly yellow 

 on the shade side, and a beautiful red next the sun ; the flesh 

 is delicate, white, half-breaking, and of slight musky flavour ; 

 the seeds are small and blackish brown, and the fruit ripens at 

 the beginning of September. The French writers do not 

 deem it very worthy of culture, and indeed it is so very infe- 

 rior to the preceding, and rots so soon at the core, that its 

 beauty may be considered its principal recommendation. The 

 growth of the tree is not as vigorous as the preceding kind ; 

 but the young shoots have the same propensity to curve and 

 bend over, which renders the young trees irregular and ill- 

 formed in their appearance. 



WINDSOR. Pr. cat. Mil. For. Lang. pom. Knoop. pom. 



Cuisse Madame. Quia. Evel. Duh. Roz., and all French 



writers and catalogues, and also of Forsyth and Coxe. 

 Lady thigh. Evel. 



This pear is oblong, its height being thirty lines, and its 

 diatneter twenty-two ; the eye is small, inserted nearly even 

 with the base of the fruit ; the stem, which is about fifteen lines 

 in length, is somewhat furrowed at the extremity which unites 

 it to the fruit ; the skin is delicate, shining, yellowish green on 

 the shaded side, and brownish red next the sun ; the flesh is 

 half-melting, and rather buttery, somewhat coarse, abounding 

 in sweet juice which has a partially musk flavour ; the fruit 

 ripens at the end of July ; the tree grows very vigorously when 

 grafted on the pear, but does not do so well on the quince. 



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